H. Hollingsworthy to Maryland Council of Safety

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The subscriber will engage to have made any quantity, from two hundred to two thousand muskets, on the same plan, and at the same price they are made in this or the adjacent Provinces, and finish one hundred by the tenth day of April next, and one hundred per month after, till the quantity engaged are finished, provided I am furnished with locks for said muskets at least twenty days before said day, (for which shall be allowed fifteen shillings for each lock, out of the price of the muskets so finished,) and providing I am advanced the sum of three hundred and twenty-five pounds immediately, (or as soon as good security is offered,) and a further sum of one hundred pounds at the delivery of said hundred muskets, towards defraying the expense of the second hundred; and for each hundred after to have the sum of fifty pounds advanced, till the quantity wanted are completed: as witness my hand, this sixth day of February, 1776.

H˙ HOLLINGSWORTH. Cecil County.

To the Honourable Council of Safety, now sitting.

P˙ S. It is meant that said muskets be completed with Stock, bayonet, rammer, and brass mounting.