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lency desired me to procure you, he has been to several
Parts of the Province but could collect no more than 489 the
Cost of which delivered at Fort Loudoun is as you will see
by the inclosed Account (which in my opinion is a reasonable
one) £326. 16. 6 Maryland Currency. At the Bottom of the
Account I have made a Charge for an Express that I was
obliged to send to Mr Gary, for the Express that I sent to
Winchester the 10th of Augst with your Packett & for him that
I sent to F. Loudoun with my Letter of the 17thof that month
£3. 1 6. 6. I have told Mr Gary that Your Excellency will either
pay him the whole at F Loudoun or give him an Order on
Mr Wolstenholme at Annapolis. I expect that he will be
able to return hither before I sett off for Fort Cumberland
which I intend to do next Wednesday Morning or on Thurs-
day at farthest.
[Sharpe to Forbes.]
F F the 4th of Septl 1758.
Sr
When I last wrote to your Excellency I apprehended that if
you drew a Warrant on the Paymaster in favour of Mr Howell
for these Sums vizl£850 stg £360.8.6 sts &£510. Currency
he would have been reimbursed all the Money that he had
paid to Dr Ross over & above the Sum of £1500 which he
was impowered to pay by Mr Kilby, but I now perceive by
Your Letter of Yesterdays Date which I am just favoured
with that I was mistaken because I went upon a Supposition
that the Exchange at Philaa was at 60 p Cl when it is in fact
at 55 or thereabouts as appears by the Sterling Sum which
Mr Howell paid Dr Ross in Discharge of my order for
£2976: 15 Currency & I presume Mr Barrow went upon the
same Supposition when he told Mr Howell that the Sum men-
tioned in your Excellency's Warrant was rather more than
the Difference betwixt what Mr Howell had paid Mr Ross &
the 1500 stg which Mr Kilby was to advance when the Sum
mentioned in that Warrant was really short of such Difference.
Your Excellency will see by the inclosed Extract from Dr
Ross's Letter to me that Mr Howell is not satisfied with
having his Name mentioned in the Warrant, if this or any
other Objection that might be made to your last Warrant
should make it necessary to give another I should be glad
you would draw it in Mr Ross's favour for such Sum as you
think proper that he might have no more to do than to give a
proper Receit thereupon, to repay Mr Howell if that is what
Mr Howell insists on & to return home for I am satisfied that
in the present Situation of the Doctors Affairs at home it
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