56 Journal and Correspondence

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with an impartial Public for all these imperfections. I am with
real regard
Dear Sir
y^r most hum Serv^t
Ch. Carroll of Carrollton

C. B.

Friday 24^th April 1778.

Present as on yesterday
Ordered That the western shore Treasurer Pay to Samuel
Hepburn Twenty one Pounds, ten shillings per Account passed
by the A Gen^l
That the said Treasurer Pay to Charles Lansdale nine hun-
dred & twenty seven Pounds, fourteen shillings & three Pence
out of the money remitted by Congress for the Purchase of
Provisions to be delivered over to Tho^s Claggett Purchaser in
Prince Georges County on Account
Whereas Capt. Brisson and Capt. Adilon the Commanders
of two French armed Vessels now lying at Baltimore have
represented to this Board that some of the French Sailors
shipped in Hispaniola in the said Vessels for Voyage to be
performed to Hispaniola again have been enlisted into the
Continental Service and that People are endeavouring to pre-
vail on others of the said Sailors to leave the said Vessels and
enter into the American Army as Substitutes This Board are
of Opinion that any Sailors Subjects of the King of France
or of any other Foreign Power who belong to Vessels in our
Ports and were engaged a board to finish the voyage to any
foreign Port again ought not to be enlisted or taken from their
Vessels without the Captains Consent, and therefore require
that none such be enlisted or taken from their Vessels against
the will of their Captains and to afford the effectual Encourage-
ment promised to Strangers as an Inducement to their coming
and trading with us the Commanding Officer of any State
Galley is hereby directed on the Request of the said Capt.
Brisson and Capt. Adilon to receive on board his Galley any
of the Crew of the said Capt. Brisson or Capt. Adilon, who
are French Subjects shipped in the Dominions of France that
the said Captains shall respectively require and them securely
keep on board such Galley in order that they may be again
returned to 'the Vessel to which they belong and Compelled
to perform the Voyage according to their Contract
Ordered That the western Shore Treasurer Pay to Francis
Burgess seventy two Pounds due him per Acc^t passed by the
Committee of Claims
That the said Treasurer Pay to Daniel Carroll Esq^r one