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482 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.
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U.H.J.
p. 32
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Your Committee find that after a Return into the Office of the
Surplus Money by the several Agents for enlisting Soldiers there
remains out of the £2357..10..0 issued for that purpose out of the
Loan Office, a Ballance of £1645 to be levied by three equal Assess-
ments, yet notwithstanding two of those Assessments have been
levied no more has been paid by the several Sheriffs to the Commis-
sioners of said Office than the Sum of £731..17..11 of which the un-
derwritten Sum of £399..11..0 1/4 has been paid since 7th of March
last, after the Books for the aforegoing Account were Closed, viz.
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Gabriel Parker Sheriff of Calvert County
William Cartwright Sheriff of Saint Marys County
John Hepburn Sheriff of Prince Georges County
John Handy Sheriff of Somerset County
James Rigbie Sheriff of Baltimore County.
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28..01..11
40..—.. 7
104.. 14.. 1/2
126...14.. 43/4
100.. — .. —
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399..11.. 1/4
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Whereby We find that of the said two Assessments there remains
to be accounted for, or paid in by the several Sheriffs the following
Sums viz.
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Kent County
Charles County
Baltimore County
Dorchester County
Talbot County
Cecil County
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36..16.. 8
147.. 1.. 63/4
47.. 5.. 71/4
110.. 15...103/4
76.. 8.. 6
29..17.. 1 1/2
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448.. 5.. 41/4
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Your Committee observe that there has been produced before them
two Receipts to Edward Trippe Sheriff of Dorchester County for
the Years 1742 and 1743 signed by William Ghiselin late Clerk of
the Loan Office, for the sum of £112..16 by him paid to the said
Ghiselin on Account of the publick Assessment and Ordinary
Licenses; also two Receipts are produced from Benjamin Bradford
Sheriff of Cecil County for £94.. 14 Signed as abovesaid by him paid
for the Uses abovesaid for which sums we find no Credit given in
the Books or Accounts of the Paper Currency Office
That of the Sum of £3391..14..11 issued out of the said Office for
maintaining and transporting his Majestys forces, there has been
paid by the several Naval Officers for the Moiety of the Duty on
Negroes and Liquors the Sums hereafter expressed viz.
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