38 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

U. H. J.

of £187.. 13.. 6 on Robert Ungle Treasurer of the Eastern Shore for
which the said Ungle is allowed by the Committee that past his
Account in the year 1720 but as your Committee Conceives without
the said Ungles producing any proper Voucher for the same, for
that we find that in the year 1729 the said Richard Bennett Esq^r
Appeared before the then Governor and Council and produced the
above Order without any discharge appearing thereon and deposed
that he had not received the above Sum of Money nor any part of it
nor any thing in Satisfaction thereof, upon which it appears that
another order was drawn on Col^o Samuel Young for the af^d Sum of
£187.. 13...6 Sterl by which we conceive the Publick has been charged
twice for one and the same Sum tho it appears by the Oath of the
aforesaid Richard Bennet not to have been paid him by M^r Ungle
Your Committee also finds that in an Account of M^r Samuel Hyde
marked F hereunto annexed three Several Articles amounting to
the Sum of £529..6..10 Appears to have been paid to his Excellency
Samuel Ogle Esq^r but as one of the said three Articles being
£238.. 15...10 is not taken notice of in any of M^r Hydes Accounts
hereto annexed Your Committee beg leave to lay before this House
the nature of that Article with the Reason of its not being mentioned
in these Accounts of M^r Hydes And for that Purpose We must
observe that the said Sum of £238.. 15...10 was raised by Virtue of
An Act of Assembly made Anno 1732 and was not by the said Act
particularly appropriated But it was afterwards by another Act
made in 1734 Appropriated to the Fund for Arms &c^a We find that
the Sum of £238.. 15...10 Immediately after Receipt thereof and be-
fore The last mentioned Act was made was Remitted by the Hands
of Daniel Dulany Esq^r to M^r Samuel Hyde as appears by the Ac-
counts number A hereto annexed and we presume before M^r Hyde
had made or Transmitted any Account in which such Article might
be expected to have been Charged Col^o Young by an order of Council
drew an order on M^r Hyde for the said Sum of £238..15..10 payable
to his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r and which said Sum together
with the other two Articles amounting in the whole to the Sum of
£529.. 6.. 10 Appears to be unaccounted for by M^r Hyde in the afore-
said Account Mark'd F by which Account it appears that there is laid
out in Powder and Arms £371...8.. 2 and that there remains a Bal-
lance in M^r Hydes Hands on the said Account £157...18.. 8 and altho
it would have been perhaps Clearer if M^r Hyde had Stated such
Article in his General Account of the 3^d for Arms that your Commit-
tee humbly Conceive that the Justice with Regard to the Publick is
the same for if M^r Hyde had Credited the Publick with that Sum

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he must have Charged the Publick with the Arms purchased for &
sent to this Province out of that Sum, which he has not done but kept
a Seperate Account of the same