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after mature Consideration had thereon, proposed to Join with the
Honourable Members of the Upper House in a Report necessary to
be made to both Houses, and to that end offered one (as your Con-
ferees conceive most agreable to the true State of the Case) to the
Honourable Benjamin Tasker and James Holliday Esq^rs but they
refusing to Join with your Conferees in that Report so offered, We
proceed to Report the matters given us in charge as they now appear
to Us, and find them to be as follows.
That there has been raised in the whole Province by means of that
Fund clear of all Deductions from the Year 1717 to the Year 1739
the sum of £6840.. 15.. 9
That upon Examination into the Accounts of Samuel Young
Esq^r late Treasurer of the Western Shore with respect to the above
Fund from the Year 1717 to the Year 1735 We find the sum of
£4139.. 19.. 71/4 to have been raised on the Western Shore as by the
Copies of those Accounts in the Book Mark'd A hereunto annext,
reference being had thereto appears.
That out of the money so raised on the Western Shore there has
been remitted into the Hands of Mess^rs John Hyde and Samuel
Hyde Merchants in London the Sum of £3158..2..10 1/4 as p said
Young's Accounts appears.
That from the Accounts Current and from sundry Shop Notes
now produc'd which does not appear to us by the Treasurers Ac-
counts nor any other way to have been heretofore produced to the
Lower House of Assembly, there appears by the Account here-
unto annexed mark'd B the Sum of 2079.. 10.. 3 to have been laid out
in Arms and Ammunition, and other necessaries for the use of and
applied towards the Building the House now used as well for a
Magazine as the Council Chamber, which House (as appears from
the Journal of the Lower House in May 1718) was Built as a
Magazine for Arms
That for an Article of £49.. 3...10 part of the Sum last mentioned
for Goods sent in the Year 1718, there was not any Shop notes pro-
duced to Your Committee but it appears to be an Article charged
in M^r Hydes Account current for that Year, and we presume by
the great distance of time the Vouchers may be lost
That we find in the Year 1719 an Order of Governor and Council
to Col^o Richard Tilghman for £187.. 13...6 Sterling to Purchase
Arms for the Use of the Province from Richard Bennett Esq^r and
Company, upon which Order another appears to be drawn by the
said Col^o Richard Tilghman for the Above Sum of £187.. 13...6 on
Robert Ungle Esq^r Treasurer of the Eastern Shore for which the
said Ungle in his Account Charges the Publick in 1720 Your Con-
ferees further find by the Council Proceedings that in the Year 1729
M^r Bennett appeared before the then Governor and Council and
produced the above Order and deposed, that he had not received the
Above Sum of Money or any part of it, or any thing in Satisfaction

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