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And your Committee likewise find that the Naval Officers
for the Port of Oxford and Annapolis have rendered their
Accounts to September 1760: amounting to 505...11...3 which
we presume the Province will have Credit for by the Trustees
in their next Account. The Account for Potowmack District
for the year 1760: does not appear to have been yet rendered;
And your Committee take Leave further to report that after
the most diligent Search in the Assembly Office they cannot
find the Naval Officer's original Account for Patuxent Dis-
trict for the Year 1754, nor is it entered by the Clerk of the
Lower House, but a blank Leaf is left in the Book wherein
the other Accounts are entered and where that should have
been entered; From the Loss of which Account they cannot
say whether all the Bills d|£ for Duties that year in that
District were remitted or not? but they find the Trustees have
credited the Province for Bills remitted that Year by the
Naval Officer of that District to the Amount of £362...10.. 7
sterling not charged in any other Accounts by said Officer, and
which Sum is a Medium between the Sums that Duty raised
in that District the preceeding and subsequent years; from
which we are inclined to believe that Justice is done to the
Province; but are of Opinion that it would be proper to pro-
cure a Duplicate of that Account, to have it entered in the
Record Book whereby it may appear whether there was a full
Remittance or not; Your Committee further report that many
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of the original Accounts of the Naval Officers are not to be
found by us in the Assembly Office that are entered, and that
none of the Naval Officers' Accounts that are entered or [have
been] entered by the Clerk of the Lower House since the Year
1757 tho' many of their Accounts appear to have been returned
since that Time; and as there does in some Instances appear a
Negligence in the said Clerk in not entering some Accounts
which have been rendered by the said Naval Officers we cannot
say whether the Naval Officers (whose Accounts do not
appear) have been remiss in their Duty, or whether such
Accounts be lost or mislaid by the said Clerk.
Your Committee take Leave further to report that we have
received from your Committee of Accounts the following Ac-
count as delivered in by Benjamin Young Esquire Naval
Officer of the District of Pocomoke, with the Province of
Maryland as under stated; whereby he has given the Province
Credit for the Interest that has arisen due on the several Sums
of Money above set forth as unpaid for that District from the
Times they should have been paid and that the Commissioners
of the Loan Office have certified under their Hands that the
Bills of Exchange for the Sum of £147 is 3/4d sterling as
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