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proper Authority to grant our Application. We took the first Op-
portunity, by the Post, to address him on the Subject and have the
Honor to lay before you his obliging Answer and a Copy of his
Letter to the Commanding Officer of the French Marine.

December
28
Liber No. 78
p. 402

Monday 30^th December 1782
Present His Excellency the Governor.

Benjamin Stoddert, Jeremiah T. Chase, James Brice & John H
Stone Esq^rs
Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Thomas John-
son Jun^r Two hundred and eighty five pounds fifteen shillings and
six pence specie out of the money appropriated for the Barges on
Account
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Smyth Esq^r for the use
of David Boyd fifteen pounds specie due him per Account passed. —
That the said Treasurer pay to Samuel Duvall for the use of
George Dent one hundred and ten pounds, sixteen shillings and one
penny half penny specie due one half of an Account passed. —
That the said Treasurer pay to George Dent one hundred & ten
pounds, sixteen shillings & one penny half penny specie agreeable
to the " Act to adjust the Debts due from this State." Balance of
Account passed 6^th Inst.

That the said Treasurer pay to Elizabeth Pritchett three pounds
eleven shillings & one penny specie agreeable to the Act afores^d p
Acc^t passed 17 Nov. 1782

That the Issuing Commissary deliver to Captain Bryan fourteen
Barrels of Flour & ten Barrels of Pork for the Barges. —

December
30
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 371

Commission issued to John Love, Thomas Johnson, William
Smithson, John Archer, William Bond, Abraham Whitacre, Igna-
tius Wheeler, James McComas, John Rumsey, Mordecai Amos,
Robert Amos, John Patrick, James Phillips, John Hall son Cranbury
& Samuel Hughes appointed Justices of the peace for Harford
County. John Love, Thomas Johnson, William Smithson, William
Bond & Abraham Whitacre Justices of the Orphans Court of the
County aforesaid. —
John Stull, Joseph Sprigg, Henry Schnebely, Joseph Chapline
John Barnes, Richard Davis, Andrew Bruce, Andrew Rench, William
Yeates, Samuel Barrett, John Celler, Charles Prather and William
Good, Justices of the Peace for Washington County. — John Stull
Henry Schnebely, Joseph Chapline, John Barnes and John Celler
Justices of the Orphans Court of the County aforesaid. —

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