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246 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. III
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Clair left for them at Conegochiegh would make £1500 Stg.
or (reckoning Exchange at 60 p 0) £2400 Currency, of this
they had already received from Srlohn£i89o the Ballance
therefore to be yet received by them was £510 Currency,
this I understood from you that MrKilby or Mr Howell would
Advance on Your Excellency's Account & in Consequence of
your Instructions as well as the £850 StE for Contingencies &
I drew on Mr Howell for those two Sums accordingly as you
will see by the inclosed Copies of my Orders. You may
remember Sir that when we were last talking of this Matter
at Carlyle I asked Your Excellency if you would not choose
to give a warrant or warrants on the Paymaster for those two
Sums of £510 Currency & £850 stg to which you replied I
think that you would write to Mr Kilby or Mr Howell & desire
them to advance it & that that method would do as well.
I now perceive by the Letter which Mr Kilby wrote to Mr
Howell the 14* Inst to explain the Letter which he sent me
the igth of Iune that he means to advance only £1500 Stg in
part of what was due to Mr Ross for Victualling our Troops
to the 8th of April, that is instead of £2976. 15 Currency
which I imagined it was his Intention to advance, he will
advance no more than £2400 Currency & I perceive that he
has forbid Mr Howell to pay either the £850 stg for Contin-
gencies or the £510 Currency for the Pay of the Maryland
Troops now under Your Excellency's Command. This being
the Case I know not what Method to propose whereby Dr Ross
might be released unless your Excellency will write to Mr
Howell & let him know how the mistake has happened & at
the same time give him a Warrant or Warrants on the Pay-
master or Mr Nelson for the £850 Stg the £510 Currency &
the Sum of £576. 15 Currency or £360. 8. 6 Sterling (which
Sum of£576. 15 Currency or £360: 8 Stg is the Difference
between what Mr Kilt>y intended to advance Dr Ross & what
it was imagined he intended to advance him. This I suppose
is as much as Mr Howell can desire & thereupon I presume
he will withdraw his Action & endeavour as far as shall be in
his power to vindicate Dr Ross's Character. Mr Kilby seems
to hint I think that one Reason of his declining to advance
Dr Ross the full Sum of £2976. 15 Currency was that he &
his Friends might be still interested & lest he & they should
otherwise give themselves no farther Concern or Trouble
about the Affair nor use their Endeavours to obtain Payment
from the Assembly, but if this was the only Reason the Pre-
caution would have been needless for Your Excellency will be
pleased to observe that altho that £2976. 15 had been paid
him yet Dr Ross would still lye out of "what is due to him for
Victualling our Troops from the 8th of April to the 8th of May
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