234 Journal and Correspondence.

August 15
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 322

That the said Treasurer pay to Alexander Frazier fifteen Pounds
specie to be delivered over to Archibald Golder, on Account.
That the said Treasurer pay to George Mann four hundred and
eighteen Pounds, fifteen shillings and ten pence specie due him per
Account passed.
Whereas by the Petition of Jane Urquhart and Rachael Conoway
of Ann Arundel County Widows, to the General Assembly and
referred to this Board, with a request that they take order therein,
setting forth that they the said Jane Urquhart and Rachael Conoway
were by the Grand jury of Ann Arundel County March Court last
severally presented for selling Liquors contrary to Law, Jane Urqu-
hart in seven and Rachel Conoway in two Presentments. We have
thought proper that all further Proceedings at Law on the said
Presentments shall cease.
To Luther Martin Attorney General or
the Prosecutor of the Criminal Pleas in
Ann Arundel County.

August 15
Liber No. 78
p. 364

[Council to Honble Intendant]

Altho' you are accountable to the Assembly for your Transactions,
and are directed to lay your Proceedings before each Session, yet,
as a Civil Officer of Government, you are also amenable to this
Board, and we have most indubitably a Right to call on you for any
Official Papers, or such Information respecting your Conduct, as
Intendant, as we may think proper. This Right we shall exercise as
often as we deem it necessary, and you will be pleased to take Notice
that we shall not attribute to Courtesy, your ready Acquiescence. We
are glad to find by your Letter, that you have made no Settlement
with Col^o Rawlings for the Flour we sold him in February last at
12/6 p Cent. We were apprehensive that you had taken a less Price
for what was delivered under our Contract, than we agreed for, but
we are pleased that you have not exercised a Power which the
Laws does not give you, of altering Contracts made after the
Creation of your Office. Permit us here, in answer to any Thing
which may be objected to our Right of making Contracts in Feb-
ruary, to observe, that for many Weeks after you were Intendant,
you declined taking Charge of the Specifics, under an Idea that you
had nothing to do with them, 'til the £20,000. appropriated for the
Payment of Creditors of a particular Description, was disposed of.
By the Act to appoint an Intendant, he is directed to consult and
advise with the Governor and Council, on the State and Manage-
ment of the Revenue and public Monies, and Tobacco, and the
Demands and Debts of Government. As you have, in no Instance,
since the last Session of Assembly, complied with this Direction,
and as it appears by your Letter to Mess^rs Wallace and Davidson of
the 2^d Instant, now before us, that you mean to apply the Specifics