The Lower House. 85

Monday Morning August 19. 1745

The House met according to Adjournment. The Proceedings of
Saturday were read.
The following Letters, from Col. George Plater, Naval Officer of
Patuxent District; M^r Thomas Lee Executor of Philip Lee Esq^re
Naval Officer of North Potomack District; and from M^r Mathias
Gale Executor of Col. Levin Gale, Naval Officer of Pocomoke Dis-
trict; were read and ordered to be entered on the Journal.
I take leave to assure the Lower House of Assembly, that I have
always been very careful to remit; as soon as I possibly could, every
Bill of Exchange I have received for the fifteen Pence per Hogshead,
to the Trustees appointed by Act of Assembly to negotiate those
Bills and made Provision, that if any Bill or Bills remitted by me on

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Liber No. 46
August 19

that Account, were not paid on Account of the Drawer, that the
Money should be immediately paid on my own Account. I took
the very same Method with Capt. Morgan's Bill, and have produced
the Trustee's Letter acknowledging the Receipt of it. And I am
ready to declare upon Oath, that I do not know, or ever heard, that
the said Bill was not paid by the Person it was drawn upon. This
is really the true State nf the Case with Regard tn that- Rill, and every
Body must be sensible I have done my Duty, and that the Trustees
in London are not accountable to me for their Conduct, but to the
Assembly, and consequently that if they (the Trustees) should
misapply the Bills they receive, or become insolvent, I ought not in
Law or Reason to be chargeable with their mismanagement I have,
however, wrote to the Trustees, and shall acquaint the Assembly
with their Answer as soon as I shall have received it.
Aug^t 14. 1745. Geo. Plater

August 15. 1745
May it please your Honours
I have received a Letter from the Commissioners of the Paper
Office, in pursuance of an Order of the Assembly, requiring me, as
Executor to Philip Lee, late Naval Officer of North Potomack Dis-
trict, to render an Account of the Bills therein mentioned, to wit,

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Catharine Playfay, endors'd by Henry Massey £10.. 0..0
John Boyde, endors'd by John Browne 13...17..1
John Dormant, endors'd by Robert Yates 53...11...8
James Mollinson, endors'd by Robert Browne 25..14..0
Randolph Johnson on John Buchanan 4.. 0..6

£107.. 3..3

Any Account of which I do not find in my Testator's Books, or
among his Papers, nor can I, as yet, learn whether the Commission-