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Your Committee also find that the Method of Book Keeping
which has been and now is used in the Paper Currency Office and
the Neglect of some of the Officers Impowered to Collect the Several
funds payable into that Office is such that your Committee hath
not been able to make such Estimates of what the funds Annualy
Produce as is Required of them by the Honourable the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly; And that if the present Method be
Continued the said Books must Remain in the same Confused
Manner

Your Committee thereof Humbly Proposes that the present method
of Keeping the Books in that Office may be Changed into that which
is Commonly called the Italian Method or double Entry and that
the Commissioners be directed to Keep the Office Books for the time
to come in that manner and form and that the Iron Chest Account
may be made to Answer to a General Cash Account to all Intents &
purposes
Your Committee further Propose that an Address be presented
to His Excellency the Governor to order the Several officers Con-
cerned in Collecting the money to be paid on the Several funds into
the said Office to Return proper Accounts in due time and make
payment accordingly
All which is Submitted to the Consideration of the Lower House
of Assembly The Hon^ble Samuel Chamberlaine Esq :^r of the Upper
House not Concurring therewith

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
March 9

5^th March 1756

The Committee appointed by the Lower house of Assembly to
Inspect the Office and proceedings of the Commissioners of the
Paper Office having this day Closed their Report of the State of
the Paper Office which I Refused to Concurr in by Reason they
denied to the following ammendment proposed by me (to Wit)
Instead of these words in the fourth and fifth lines of the Report
"And that if the present Method be Continued the said Books must
Remain in the same Confused manner Incert the following words
to Wit And that if the Present Method be Continued the same
dificulty will still Remain Sam Chamberlaine

A Bill by Mess:^rs Stoddart and Chaplin Entituled an Act for the
Adjournment and continuance of Frederick County Court thus
Endorsed
By the Lower House of Assembly 9:^th March 1756
Read the first and Second time by an Especial Order and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl: Lo: Ho
Read the first time in this House and Ordered to lye on the Table
Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

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