64 Journal and Correspondence,

January 30
Liber No. 78
p. 323

you were acquainted with the Circumstance of this Money's being
appropriated to the Recruiting Service and not subject even to our
Disposition, and that by a Law of the last Session, we are empowered
to pay Creditors who have advanced Money to the State on Promises
of speedy Payment, or who may be greatly distressed and injured, the
Whole, or Part of their Debt, by the Sale of Specific. You are ap-
prised of our Determination, and the Measures to be pursued, and
we have put it in your Power to avoid the Evils which will attend
them; though they may appear rigid, they are only such as our Duty
and the Welfare of the State have prompted us to adopt and your
Conduct fully warrants.

Janua«y 31
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 214

Thursday 3 1^st January 1782

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Lieut William
Lamar of the 1^st Regim^t thirty two pounds, fourteen shillings and
nine pence of the Bills emitted under the Act for the Emission of
Bills of Credit &^ca for Stores to the 1^st of February on Account —
That the said Treasurer pay to Thomas Harwood Esq^r one hun-
dred and fifty pounds, ten shillings and four pence of the same Emis-
sion due him per Certificates passed by the Aud Gen^l —
That the said Treasurer pay to Samuel T Wright Esq^r thirty nine
pounds, twelve shillings & six pence of the same Emission due him
per Account passed by the Depy Aud. —
That the said Treasurer pay to Maj^r John Davidson one pound
ten shillings specie for I Cord Wood purch^d for the soldiers p Acc^t
passed by the D. Aud

p. 215

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Thomas Grason
fifty one pounds, eight shillings and to Maj^r John Davidson one hun-
dred and seven pounds, seven shillings and five pence of the Bills
emitted under the Act for the Emission of Bills of Credit &^ca due
them for Cert^s issued agreeable to the Act to adjust the Debts &^ca
That the said Treasurer pay to Elizabeth Maxwell, two hundred
and seventy nine pounds, sixteen shillings and to Col^o James Tootell
fifty eight pounds, fourteen shillings and three pence Specie agreeable
to the Act to adjust the Debts due from this State p Cert^s settled bv
the A G^l 29^th Inst.
That the said Treasurer pay to Jeremiah T. Chase Esq^r three hun-
dred and nineteen pounds, seventeen shillings and ten pence specie
in full for his Salary for the year 1781. —

January 31
Liber No. 78
p. 323

[Council to Lieu^t William Murdock.]

We have been informed that you have enlisted several Men in this
State for Col^o Armand's Corps, conceiving yourself authorized by a
Resolution of Congress. It was improper for you to proceed in this