36 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

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to be allowed to M^r Denton One of Your own Members, for copying,
is too much for the Copies made by the Clerk of the Council, from
whence it is easily concluded, that Your Objection is not so much
to the Services as to the Persons
We shall not give you or Ourselves further Trouble about the
Journal, but only tell you, that as the fees now claimed are as just
Debts on the Publick as any Others, We shall not make, what We
apprehend to be an unjust Difference between these and the Other
Publick Debts, and therefore return the Journall
Signed p Order John Ross G Up H.

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r from the Committee appointed to inspect
the State of the Fund of 3^d p hh^d for Arms makes the following
Report
To the Honourable The Upper House of Assembly
Your Committee having been appointed by the House to Join a
Committee of the Lower House of Assembly to Inspect and Report
the State of the Fund raised by 3^d p hogshead on Tobacco Exported
for purchasing Arms and Ammunition for the Defence of the Prov-
ince your Committee in Obedience to your Appointment have pro-
ceeded and carefully Examined the several Accounts hereto annexed
and altho the Committee of the Lower House have agreed with your
Committee as to the General Account yet they being pleased to differ
with us in some Explanation on these Accounts We humbly Appre-
hend Our Duty Obliges Us to Represent the State of them in the
following manner
First your Committee find that there has been raised in the whole
Province by means of the abovementioned Fund Clear of all Deduc-
tions the Sum of £6840.. 15...9 Sterling and £36..1...7 1/2 Current Gold
That upon Examining the Accounts of Samuel Young Esq^r late
Treasurer of the Western Shore We find the sum of £41 39.. 19.. 71/4
to have been raised on the Western Shore from the year 1717 to the
year 1735 and received by the said Samuel Young as by his Treas-
urers Accounts hereto annexed appears Mark'd A
That out of the last mentioned Sum received by the said Young
he hath remitted into the hands of Mess^rs John and Samuel Hydes
Merchants in London the Sum of £31 58.. 2...10 Sterl and that the
said Young hath discharged himself of the Remainder of the Sum
received by him as aforesaid Except Ballance due on his last Ac-
count of i8s. 3d. & £34.. 13. 73/4 Gold by several Payments made by
him as Appears by the Treasurers Accounts above mentioned

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That by the Accounts current and Sundry Shop notes from Mess^rs
John and Samuel Hyde produced to Your Committee there appears
the Sum of £2080..2s..10d. Sterling to have been laid out in Arms and
Ammunition and other Necessarys for the Use of and Applied
towards building of the Council Chamber as By the said Accounts
hereunto annexed appears marked B