The Lower House. 85

Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
The Petition of Jonas Green, Executor of the last Will of Thomas
Sparrow, deceased, was read and referred to the Consideration of
the next Session of Assembly.
Mr. Williamson, from the Committee appointed to examine the
Accounts relating to the Disposal of £6000 granted by Act of
Assembly
Delivers to M^r Speaker the following Report viz.^t
By the Committee appointed by the Honourable the House of
Delegates for the Examination of the Accounts and Papers relating
to the Disposal of the Sum of £6000. granted by Act of Assembly
for his Majesty's Service.
Your Committee having Examined the several Accounts and
Papers relating to the Disposal of the £6000. granted by Act of
Assembly for his Majesty's Service in July Last, take Leave to
observe that in the Accounts N^o I and 2. given in by Colonel Cresap,
there is a Charge made of £16: 19: 3. for Carriage of 51. Bushels
of Salt (from Blandensburgh to Old Town.) more than from any
of the Accounts now before them appears to have been bought.
That in the Same Account N^o I there is a Charge made for 1500.
Bushels of Wheat, 51. Bushels Whereof is said to be Damaged by

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Liber No. 48
March 18

Water of which we have No further Account, the remaining 1449.
Bushels of that Account produces 42000^lb of Flour, but Your Com-
mittee are of Opinion the same must Yield a much larger Quantity
and they Conceive themselves Justified in that Opinion, by a Com-
putation that 2j Bushels of Wheat will afford 100.^Ib of Flour Clear
of Bran, the Truth Whereof is Confirmed by the Daily Experience
of those Concerned in that Manufacure allowing the same to be
Ground and Boulted for the Bran as Customary by which Computa-
tion it will appear that the aforesaid Quantity of Wheat produces
57960^lb of Flour Exclusive of the Damaged Wheat, and that the
said Cresap ought to Account for a further Quantity of 1960^lb
of Flour on 399. Bushels of Wheat and that the Addition of 15
p Cent ( for Shrinkage '& Loss in weighing) on the Wheat Beef and
Pork Charged in the said Account is without Reason or any Just
Foundation as they Conceive. That a Charge is Likewise made in
the same Account of £59: 6: 7 for Carrying 2g667.^lb of Flour from
Conigocheeg to Old Town by Water, at 4/p Hundred and from
thence by Land to the New Store at 1/6 p Hundred amounting to
£22: 5: 0and for Carrying 16400^lb of Flour from Conigocheeg to
New Store by Land at 7/6 p Hundred the Sum of £61: 10: 0. all
which Charges and several other Articles for Carriage in the same
Account Your Committee apprehend are Extravagant particularly
the Charge of £8:0:0 for the Carriage of 100 Bushels of Wheat

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