Resolution of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 19, 1775.
Abstract
Approving purchase of muskets with detailed manufacturing specifications and requiring that they be proved before purchase.
Summary
The resolution is a procurement contract in which the subscriber agrees to manufacture between 200 and 2,000 muskets at prevailing regional prices, delivering 100 muskets by April 10 and 100 more each month thereafter. The agreement requires the purchaser to supply musket locks, provide advance payments to finance production, and deduct the cost of the locks from the final price of each completed musket.
Law Text
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 ajacient provinces and finish one hundred by the tenth day of April next, and one hundred pr month after, till the quantity engaged are furnished, providing I am finish'd with locks for said muskets at least twenty days before said day, (for which shall be allow'd fifteen shillings for each lock) out of the price of the musket so finished, and providing I am advanced the sum of three hundred and twenty five pounds immediately (or as soon as good security is ofer'd) and a further sum of one hundred pounds, at the delivery of said hundred muskets, towards defraying the expence of the second hundred, and for each hundred after to have the sum of fifty pounds advanced, till the quantity wanted are compleated as witness my hand this sixth day of Febr 1776.
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Categories
MANUFACTURE ONLY