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thought fit to appoint him one of the Trustee for negotiating the
fifteen Pence p hh^d raised by Virtue of an Act entituled an Act for
making and emitting Ninety Thousand Pounds Current Money of
Maryland in Bills of Credit and of which Appointment this House
doth Approve
We therefore think proper that the several Naval Officers direct
their Letters and Bills for that Duty to Mess^rs William Hunt and
Joseph Adams Merchants in London
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Cl Lo Ho.
An Engrossed Bill from the Lower House by Mess^rs Hall and
Dennis Entituled an Act impowering the Justices of Talbot and
Saint Marys County Courts to allow at the laying their next County
Levy unto Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer the sums
therein mentioned thus subscribed

3 July 1746

Read and Assented to by the Lower House of Assembly
Signed p Order W^m Tilghman Ci Lo Ho.
Read and Assented to by this House and Ordered to be so Sub-
scribed
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

U. H. J.

Liber No. 34

Friday Morning 4 July 1746
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Richard Lee Esq^r from the Committee of both Houses appointed
to inspect the Paper Currency Office brings in the following Report
At A Committee of both Houses of Assembly appointed to inspect
the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners for Emitting the
Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly and to Report the
State and Condition thereof 2 July 1746

Were Present
The honourable Richard Lee Esq^r of the Upper House

July 4
p. 134

Col^o John Henry M^r Abraham Barnes
M^r John Stoddert Col^o John Hall of the Lower House
M^r Edw^d Tilghman

Who make Choice of the honble Richard Lee Esq^r their Chair-
man and Richard Dorsey to be their Clerk
Your Committee upon Inspection into the state and Condition of
the Office aforesaid do find that by the last Account transmitted by
the Trustees in London appointed by Act of Assembly for emitting
and making Current £90000 Current Money of Maryland in Bills