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Letter from the Maryland Council of Safety to Captain Isaac Vanbibber: He can have five hundred pounds in advance, on complying with the terms prescribed by the Convention for erecting Powder-Mills

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MARYLAND COUNCIL OF SAFETY TO CAPTAIN VANBIBBER.

[No˙ 25.]

Annapolis, June 17, 1776.

SIR: By the resolves of the Convention, one thousand pounds were appropriated for the building of one or more Powder-Mills. Five hundred pounds have been already drawn by a gentleman inCharles County, namedHanson, upon his giving bond with security to erect a Powder-Mill; there remain five hundred pounds unappropriated, which

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you may have an order for on complying with the terms prescribed by the Convention. We are, &c.

To CaptainIsaac Vanbibber, Baltimore-town.

P˙ S. If any change be necessary about repairing the vessels, application must be made to the Convention; we cannot give license to the owners themselves to repair, or oblige them so to do.

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