88 Journal and Correspondence.

February 27
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 229

That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut Thomas Rouse eighteen
pounds fourteen shillings for Stores to the 1^st of March on Account
and ten pounds twelve shillings of the same Emission due for rations
p Acc^t passed
That the said Treasurer pay to Lieut William Murdock twenty
one pounds, ten shillings for Stores to the 1^st of March & also thirty
pounds of the same Emission in lieu of a Suit of Cloaths & four
Shirts for the pres^t Year on Acc^t
That the said Treasurer pay to William L. Weems one hundred
and five pounds ten shillings specie agreeable to the Act to adjust

the Debts due from this State per Certificate adjusted. ——

Richard Wilison Commissary of Provisions for this State pro-
duced a Bond in the penalty of £20,000 executed by him with Thomas
B. Wilison & Robert Browne, securities faithfully to execute the
several Duties required of him as Commissary of Provisions, which
is approved of. He also produces a Cert^a of his having taken the
Oaths required by Law & having signed a Declaration of his belief
in the Christian Religion. —

February 27
Liber No. 78
p. 330

[Council to Col^o Armand.]

Your Address of the 25^th Jan^y last, was not delivered before this
Morning. The Maryland Line has been so much reduced by num-
berless Casualties, that it will require every Effort of the State to fill
it up, or give it that Respect it has ever maintained during the War,
and we cannot but be of Opinion that giving the Permission you
solicit will greatly retard the Completion of our Quota, and discour-
age many from enlisting in it who, otherwise, might have no Objec-
tion. We lament that we cannot comply with the Request of a Gen-
tleman who has such Claims upon every American, but we trust, what
we have suggested will evince the Propriety of our Refusal.

February 28
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 230

Thursday 28^th February 1782

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to William Griffith
and William Alsey each, nine pounds, eight shillings and four pence,
and to Butler Marlow fourteen pounds, three shillings and four pence
of the Bills emitted under the Act for the Emission of Bills of Credit
&^ca due them per Accounts passed. —

March i
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 230

Friday 1^st March 1782

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Ignatius Mont-
gomery fifteen pounds, two shillings and six pence — William Roberts,
six pounds, sixteen shillings and eight pence — Alice Redman, Mary
Connolly & Hannah May, each, forty shillings of the Bills emitted