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Letter from Maryland Council of Safety to Baltimore Committee

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MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO BALTIMORE COMMITTEE.

No˙ 54.

Annapolis, March 12,1776.

GENTLEMEN: We have impatiently expected information from your town of the arrival of the gunpowder and arms from Philadelphia; and having no regular intelligence from you, do not know they are safe, although we hear they are

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arrived. We request, if they are, you will secure the powder in the best manner, and immediately send down the arms in wagons, with what cartouch-boxes, belts, and gun-slings can be spared, under a guard to this city.

We are, &c.

To the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County.

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