Council of Maryland, 1782-1783. 355

necessary for the Former.. Permit us once more to remind you, that
the Delay of the Payment of Interest, is a Violation of the public
Faith and Honor so solemnly pledged by the General Assembly, for
which the Officers in the Execution of the Laws, and not the Law-
Makers, are justly blameable, and ought to be responsible

February 7
Liber No. 78
p. 411

[W Paca in Council to Honble Intendant.]

The first Quarter's Salary of Part of the Civil List, was due the
1^st Instant, and the first Quarter for the whole will be due tomorrow.
We presume it will be sufficient, barely to apprize you of this Demand
upon the Public. Your own Discernment will suggest the Necessity
of immediately lodging Money in the Treasury for the Purpose of
complying with the Promise and Intention of the General Assem-
bly, that the Officers of Government should be punctually paid,
quarterly, as their Salaries became due

Ibid.

[W Paca in Council to Tho^s Harwood, Esq^r Treas^r W Shore]

The Exigencies of Government require that the first Money you
receive should be applied to a particular Purpose; you will be pleased
therefore to suspend the Payment of any Orders by this Board, or
the Orphan's Courts now on the Treasury, 'til our further Direc-
tions, which shall be given in a few Days : in the mean Time, let us
know when you receive any Money and to what Amount. You will
be pleased to apply no Monies for the Payment of the Journal or
Certificates which may have been passed for the same, but such
Monies as may be lodged by the Intendant, out of the Funds specifi-
cally appropriated for that Purpose.

Ibid.

[W Paca in Council to Honble Intendant.]

In March last, Maurice Simmonds Esq^r of Charles Town, applied
to us for Payment of sundry Advances he had made to the Officers,
whose Names are in the Auditor's Office, while they were Prisoners.
We paid him 54,300^lbs of Tobacco at 16/. Sterling p C^t amounting
to £434 : 8 :0 Sterling, the Sum he had advanced to those Officers.
He also informed us that he had made some other Advances to a
small Amount, of which he had not the accurate Accounts; and we
supplied him with a farther Quantity of 4O,000^lbs of Tobacco at the
same Price, to be applied, in the first Instance, to the Payment of
these Advances, and the Balance, which it was then thought would
be about 200 Guineas, to be subject to the Order of this Board.
Since this Transaction, Major Winder has been with us, and says,
after he left Charles Town, he sent in to M^r Simmonds, the Money
advanced to him, a Circumstance which might very well have hap-
pened without M^r Simmonds's Knowlege, as he had a Partner in
Charles Town, who transacted his Business, while he came to Mary-
land and Virginia to settle his Accounts. The Intention of this Letter

Ibid.
p. 412