In the Council of Safety, [Charleston] Monday, Feb. 12th, 1776.
Read a letter from Capt. [Alexander] Gillon, of this date.
Ordered, That the committee at George-Town do deliver fifty pounds weight of the public gunpowder in their custody to Capt. Gillon
In the Council of Safety, Feb. 12th, 1776.
Permit Capt. Charles Morgan to lade, under your immediate inspection, twenty-one hogsheads of tobacco, and one hundred and ten barrels of rice, on board the sloop Swift, himself master, in Stono river; but not to sail before calling on the Council of Safety to report his load, and to receive a certificate for his departure.
By order of the Council of Safety.
Henry Laurens, President.
The Committee of James Island.
1. Collections of the South-Carolina Historical Society, III, 256-57.
