4 Journal and Correspondence

C. B.

Ordered that the Commissary of Stores deliver to Capt.
Fernandes eight pair of Shoes for the first Regiment
That the said Commissary Deliver to Lieut. Keltie of the
4^th Maryland Regiment as much Cloth as will make a Coat
Twilled flannel sufficient for a Waistcoat and a Pair of Breeches
one piece Brittanies one pair Shoes and Trimmings sufficient
to be charged accordingly
Ordered That the Western shore Treasurer pay to Cornelius
Mills one hundred and twenty Pounds Balance of Account for
Recruiting per Account examined and Passed by the Com-
mittee of Claims
That the said Treasurer Pay to Richard Barnes Esquire
eighty eight Pounds ten Shillings and three Pence due to
himself twenty one Pounds thirteen Shillings and ten pence
and twenty six Pounds one Shilling and seven pence due to W
B Smoots Company of Militia per Accounts passed by the
Committee of Claims

C. C.

[Council to J. Randall.]

In Council 2^d April 1778
Sir
With this you will receive an Invoice of Cloathing sent in
the Baltimore Galley with some Recruits from this Place, and
we expect, will arrive under the Care of the Officers who go
with the Recruits. You will observe a Difference in the shirts
sent, some of them are much better than others and, if the
Officers are in as much Want as we fear some of them are,
they may probably incline to have a Camp Shirt or two of
them, they are of the same Kind of Linen with which we furn-
ished some of the Gen^l last year. The worsted Stockings,
such of the Thread as are fit, the Brittanies, the Russia Drab
and Serge Denim, are designed for the Officers. We wish
we could send them a better Supply, we have some Russia
Sheeting and have desired a considerable further Quantity to
be purchased; the Swanskin may be delivered out to such of
the Officers as want it for Jackets & Breeches.
It will be very troublesome and inconvenient to get the
Clothier General to price the Goods, especially as we are
obliged to send then in smallQuantities. We shall therefore en-
deavor to get the Assembly to fix at once the Proportion of
the Cost to be sunk and, as it is designed that the Officers
shall have of the Cloathing for their respective use only we
expect the Goods will be very low priced.
We have expected for a good while past to hear that the
Cloathing from Kent County had reached you and shall write