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the Trustees Accounts therefore We hope you will please to Join
with us in Conference or otherwise in Order to take proper Meas-
ures to know wherefore the Bills therein mentioned have not been
put to the Credit of the Province, or whether the same have been
transmitted to them and likewise to know the Reason why the Naval
Officer of North Patowmeck has not returned his Accounts of the
Duty of 15^d p hh^d according to the Direction of the Act in that Case
provided and We think it necessary to have an Account from the
Trustees of what Bills have been protested amounting too so large
a sum, that We may know what Naval Officers ought properly to be
charged therewith supposing only as they only have Benefit by such
Protests the Publick ought not to answer that Charge
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.
By the Committee of Accounts 2^d June 1744
Your Committee having inspected the Accounts Current from
Mess^rs Samuel Hyde William Hunt and Robert Cruickshank Trus-
tees in Great Britain from the Year 1736 to April 1743 of the 15^d

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p hh^d for the sinking Fund of the Paper Currency and the Naval
Officers Accounts relating thereto do find that several Naval Officers
have Charged the Province of Maryland with the following Bills
remitted to the said Trustees which the said Trustees have not
Credited the said Province with viz.

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1737 Henry Morgans Bill on Lyde and Cooper for £17.. 16 re-
mitted by George Plater Esq^r Naval Officer of Patuxent
Katherine Playfays D^o Endorsed by Henry Massey for
£10 remitted by Philip Lee Esq^r Naval Officer of North
Patowmack
1738 John Boyd D^o Endorsed by John Brown for 13...17..1 re-
mitted p D^o
1740 John Dormants D^o Endorsed by Robert Yates for 53..11..8
remitted by D^o
1741 James Mollinsons D^o Endorsed by Robert Brown for
£25.. 1 4 remitted by D^o
1737 Levin Gale Esq^r Naval Officer of Pocomoke on Neal Buch-
anan for £65..14..41/2 remitted by himself
1738 Ditto on Ditto for £71.. 13..1 1/2 remitted by Ditto
1739 Ditto on Ditto for £74.. 2...6 remitted by Ditto
1740 Ditto on Ditto for £99.. 14.. 41/2 remitted by Ditto
1741 Randolph Johnsons Ditto on Buchanan for £4.. — 6 remitted
by Philip Lee Esq^r Naval Officer of North Patowmack

Your Committee observe that there is no Account from the Naval
Officer of North Patowmeck for the Duty of 15^d p hhd since the
29 September 1742
Your Committee further Observe that the said Trustees have
charged the said Province for noting and Protesting Bills of Ex-