March 23

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Saturday, March 23, 1776.

Council met. Present as yesterday.

Copies of Letter No˙ 81 were sent to Doctors Ephraim Howard and Samuel Coale, respectively.

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Mr˙ Nicholas Moore was appointed Second Lieutenant of Captain John Fulford' s Company of Matrosses, in the room of Mr˙ Felix Lewis Baron Massenbaugh, who resigned; and Mr˙ William Campbell, Third Lieutenant of said Company, in the room of Mr˙ Moore.

Commissions issued to them accordingly.

Copy of Letter No˙ 82 was sent to each Committee of Observation in the Province.

Upon application of Robert Lee, a person inlisted by a Sergeant of Captain Thomas' s Company,

Ordered, That he be discharged on his returning his inlistment and subsist money.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay to Messrs˙ Thomas Charles Williams & Co˙ twenty-two Pounds four Shillings and six Pence, for Lead, &c˙, as per account.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Captain Stone fifty Pounds, on account of his Company.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Captain Fulford two hundred Pounds, on account of his Company.

Ordered, That the said Treasurer pay to Oliver Wheedon six Pounds seventeen Shillings and six Pence, for stocking eleven Muskets.

Copy of Letter No˙ 83 was sent to the Committee of Observation for Kent County; and copy of No˙ 84 to Mr˙ Stephen West.

Adjourned till Monday morning, ten o' clock.