86 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 22-Mar. 26, 1755.

L.H.J.
Liber No. 4.8
March 18

Your Committee also observe in Cresaps Account N.^o 3. he Charges
for 37. Blankets Delivered Mess^rs Fortye and Lynn at I6/-Each
which (allowing to be of the Same Quality with those bought at
Annapolis) are overcharged upwards of 100 p Cent and that sundry
other Articles in the Said Account for Goods appear to them very
unreasonable.
Your Committee also find in Col^o Cresaps said Account N.^o 3 the
Sum of £22: 12: 0. Charged Cash paid for Slaughtering, cutting up
and Salting the first time 226 Cattle at 2/. a Head yet by the same
Account or any other now before them it Does not appear there
were any More than 177 Live Cattle bought for the Present Expedi-
tion 60 Whereof as appears by the Same Account have not been
Slaughtered in which Article there is an overcharge of £Io: 18: O.
They are also of Opinion that the storage charged in that and the
Account N^o I. and 2. are much too high, if not the same Article.
Your Committee further observe that in the abovementioned Ac-
counts there are several sums of Money Charged as paid to Sundry
Persons for Services some on Account of the present Expedition for
which no Vouchers are Laid before them and they are of Opinion
that the above Accounts Delivered in by Col^o Cresap are Stated in
a Dark Confused and unintelligible Manner.

Your Committee also apprehend that Capt. Dagworthy and Lieu-
tenant Fortyes Accounts of their Expences in Enlisting and Recruit-

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ing are Very Extraordinary and are of Opinion that the service
might have been performed at a much Less Expence to the Publick
and also observe that the Necessary Vouchers to Support the same
Accounts have not been Laid before them and that by the Accounts
now before Your Committee of the Charge of Enlisting Victualling
and Transporting 47 Men Since the Maryland Company was Com-
pleated there appears only £169: 3:6. to have been Expended out
of £200. Delivered to M^r Fortye for that Service as p General
Account.
Your Committee Likewise observe a Credit in Col^o Cresaps Ac-
count of £95: 16: 7 for 11499^lb Raw Hides and £1: 10:0 for 4
pair of Shoes which are not Deducted out of the Debet of said
Account nor Credited in the General Account.
Your Committee also find that when the Accounts now before
them are properly Settled and the Pay of the Company till the
24. ^th August next included there will Remain a Balance unexpended
of the £6000. granted as aforesaid.

All Which is humbly Submitted to the Consideration of your
Honble House
18.^th March 1755. Signed p order B: Nicholson Clk
Which was read and ordered to Lie on the Table.
The House Adjourns 'till the Morrow Morning at 9. a Clock.