Ordered, That the said Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to the Committee of Observation for the Middle District of Frederick County, £100, common money, on account of the Prisoners from North-Carolina.

Adjourned till next day, ten o’clock.

Thursday, June 13, 1776.

Met according to adjournment. Present the same Members as on yesterday.

Cornelius Hogans being ordered to be brought under guard before this Board, was brought accordingly.

It was Ordered, That he be discharged upon his recognizing as follows:

“You, Cornelius Hogans and William Richardson, do severally acknowledge yourselves to stand indebted to the Honourable Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Esq., President of the Council of Safety of Maryland, in the sum of one hundred pounds sterling each, to be levied of your goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in case the said Cornelius Hogans shall not conform to the rules and regulations of the Conventions of this Province, and conduct himself in all things agreeable thereto, for twelve months henceforward.”

The said Cornelius Hogans and William Richardson acknowledged themselves to be content.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to Colonel William Richardson £12, common money, for the use of Henry Downs, Jun., for his services two months, ending 10th instant, as Adjutant to Colonel Richardson’s Battalion of Militia.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Mr. Robert Purviance £600, common money, on account of the Schooner Resolution.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Mr. William Lux £500, like money, on account of the said Schooner.

Copy of Letter No. 22 was sent to Robert Alexander, Esq.

Adjourned till next day, ten o’clock.

Friday, June 14, 1776.

Met according to adjournment. Present the same Members as on yesterday.

Ordered, That the Commissary of Stores deliver out of the Magazine, at Annapolis, to Henry Yost and John Unseld, all the Muskets by them respectively made which were ordered by the late Convention to be returned to the said Yost and Unseld as unfit for service.

Copy of Letter No. 23 was sent to Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth, and copy of No. 24 to the Deputies of Maryland in Congress.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to William Hannah, of Queen Anne’s County, £250, common money, to enable him to carry on a Salt-Work, agreeable to a Resolution of the late Convention.

Adjourned till next day, ten o’clock.

Saturday, June 15, 1776.

Met according to adjournment. Present the same Members as on yesterday.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to Mrs. Anne Johnson £12 17s. 3d., for providing Subsistence for Captain Mullikin’s Company of Militia on the late alarm by the Otter sloop of war.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Major Gist £318 6s. 5d., the amount of his account.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to William Niven £15 2s. 7d., the amount of his account.

Adjourned till Monday, ten o’clock.

Monday, June 17, 1776.

Met according to adjournment. Present the same Members as on Saturday.

Ordered, That the Commissary of Stores deliver to Lieutenant John Waters, for Captain John Gunby’s Company, twenty-five Muskets and fifteen Rifles, with Powder-horns and Pouches.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to Captain John Day Scott £94 4s. 5d., On account of his Company.

Commissions issued to Vachel Gaither, appointed Captain, Absalom Anderson First Lieutenant, Stephen Basford Second Lieutenant, and Thomas Fowler Basford Ensign, of a Company of Militia, belonging to the Severn Battalion, in Anne Arundel County.

Copy of Letter No. 25 was sent to Captain Isaac Vanbibber.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Eastern-Shore pay to Captain James Hindman £149 17s., currency, for subsisting his Company to 30th of May.

Ordered, That the Commissary of Stores deliver to William Haywood, Esq., for Captain James Hindman’s Company, fifteen Rifles, with Powder-horns and Pouches, eleven Muskets, and Thread sufficient to make one hundred suits of Clothes.

Adjourned till next day, ten o’clock.

Tuesday, June 18, 1776.

Met according to adjournment. Present the same Members as on yesterday.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to Lieutenant Nathaniel Ewing £6 4s. for expenses incurred in guarding a sick prisoner sent from the Colony of North-Carolina, from the City of Annapolis to Pennsylvania.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to said Nathaniel Ewing 39s. for Thread for the use of the Troops.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Captain Barton Lucas £27 18s. 9d., on account of his Company.

Copy of Letter No. 26 was sent to Cumberland Dugan, of Baltimore County.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to Oliver Widdon £4 3s. 6d., for a Musket and Accoutrements.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to George Plater, Esquire, £37 17s. 23/4d., on account of Captain John Allen Thomas’s Company.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Captain George Stricker £27 7s. 3d., the amount of his account filed.

Adjourned till next day, ten o’clock.

Wednesday, June 19, 1776.

Met according to adjournment. Present the same Members as on yesterday.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to James Royston £2 4s. 8d., as per account.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to James Hutchings, of Queen Anne’s County, £29, for the difference of value of his Vessel, occasioned by the sinking of the said Vessel in the channel of the River Patapsco, for the preservation of Baltimore Town.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Mr. William Lux £100, currency, for the freight of Powder from St. Eustatia.

Copy of Letter No. 27 was sent to the Committee of Observation for Worcester County.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to John Gordon, of Baltimore Town, £124 1s., common money, being the balance of his account for Cartouch-boxes, Bayonet-belts, and Gun-slings.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Erasmus Uhler, of Baltimore Town, £59 10s., the balance of his account for Cartouch-boxes, Bayonet-belts, and Gun-slings.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Colonel George Plater £8 4s. 6d., for expenses incurred in erecting Beacons on the River Potomack.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Messrs. John Shaw and Archibald Chisholm £29 7s. 8d., for stocking Muskets, and for other services, as per account.

Copy of Letter No. 28, was sent to Dr. Edward Johnson, of Calvert County.

Information being lodged with the Council that a certain Alexander McGee, of Baltimore County, now in custody in Baltimore Town, had been guilty of offences tending to disunite the people of this Province in their present opposition to the measures of the British Ministry.

Ordered, That Colonel Smallwood be directed to send the said Alexander McGee, under a sufficient guard, as soon as may be, to this Board.