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of Potuxent, on the Conditions abovementioned, but not unless
His Ldp would be pleased to continue him afterwards, other-
wise as he is a person for whom every Body knows I have a
very particular Regard People would be apt to draw such
Conclusions from his being superseded as would contribute
very little to my Weight & Influence. Should His Ldp think
fit to approve of my Recommendation I will be answerable for
the Doctor's Behaviour for I am well assured of his Honour &
Integrity & am confident he will ever study to render His Ldp
as well as myself acceptable Service. As to Mr Darnall he is
retired to the House of a near Relation in St Mary's County
& I suppose will never venture to appear abroad again in this
province, for should he be taken by the Process that is issued
in pursuance of the Advice of the Upper House he could pre-
vail on no one to bail him, & should he be once carried to
Prison he could never expect to be relieved by an Act of As-
sembly. On Reading the Committee's Report you will observe
that Mr Young the Naval Officer of Pocomoke hath likewise
managed in much the same manner as Mr Darnall, having
applied to his own Use the whole Amount of the 15d pr Hhd
that hath been collected in his District ever since his Appoint-
ment, but as it did not amount to so considerable a Sum his
Brother in Law Mr W Dulany being one of the Committee
upon the Discovery of his Neglect sent an Express for his
Annual Accounts & paid into the hands of the Commissioners
of the Loan Office a Bill of Excha for the Ballances that ought
to have been remitted every year by Mr Young to the Trus-
tees in London & also fur Interest on such Ballances from the
time when they respectively became clue, on Consideration
whereof the Lower House left his Name out of their Address,
tho I doubt not but many of the Members will make very free
with his Character when they shall be acquainting their Con-
stituents with Mr Darnall's Misdemeanour; & indeed as he is
a Person of so indolent a Disposition so bad an Oeconomist, &
lives at so great a Distance from the District that it is absolutely
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impossible he should know what his Deputy does there, I am
afraid this is not the last Complaint that will be made against
him if he continues long in that Office. As to the Ballance
which the Committee in the first part of their Report suppose
to be due from the Estate of the late Naval Officer of Potow-
mack I am inclined to think from what Mr Tasker & Mr Lee
tell me that it was paid by His Executors (who are also dead)
but concerning that Matter I presume the Trustees can give
us Information, & I shall therefore desire the Commissioners of
the Loan Office to write to them on the Subject. As you will
perceive by the Report that the Committee was of Opinion
that the Trustees ought not to keep such Sums of the Coun-
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