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	Cr. 1757. Sept. 30. By Ballance in the Agents Hands p Report last Session, ....................... By Money in the Office for Emitting Bills of Credit, subject to his Excellency the Governor's Orders 3670 0 0 for the Purpose above mentioned, ............. £3773 0 0 Your Committee beg Leave to inform the Honourable House, that a Certificate signed by Doctor George Steuart, one of his Lordship's Justices of the Provincial Court, certifying that an Indian Scalp had been brought in by Lieutenant Thomas Riley, mentioned in the above Account, and had been burnt in his Presence, was laid before them as a Voucher for the above Charge of £50 but as the said	L. H. J. Liber No. 50 April 24
	Riley does not appear, from the said Certificate, to have been the Person who killed the Indian the abovementioned Scalp was taken from, and as nothing appeared to shew that the said Riley was entitled to the Bounty allowed by Law, they the Agents declined paying the Money until the Matter be further cleared up, and in Case that be not done, there will be the further Sum of £51.10. unapplied in the Agents Hands. But your Committee take Leave to give it as their Opinion, that no such Charge ought to be made, until Certificate agreeable to Law is produced by the Person claiming such Bounty. And in order at one View to shew the Honourable House the State and Condition of the Grants and Appropriations of Money by the Acts for his Majesty's Service, &c. made in February and September Sessions, 1756, and what Part thereof is still in the, Hands of the Agents unapplied, or subject to the Disposition of the General Assembly, the following Account, composed of the Ballances arising on the Accounts of the said several Appropriations, is stated. Messieurs Murdock, Dick, and Wolstenholme, on Acts of Assembly for his Majesty's Service, made in February and September Session, 1756.	p. 97
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	To Ballance of Cash taken out of Paper Office for Constructing Fort Frederick, &c. as p last Report, 495 6 7 To Ditto for Recruiting Royal American Regi- ment, as p Ditto, .......................... 338 9 0 To Ditto for purchasing: Arms and Ammunition, as 2662 18 0 p Ditto, ................................. To Ditto for purchasing Wheat, as p Ditto, ...... 40 0 0 To Ditto for Raising one new Company, and Sup-1 porting that and 2 old Companies to 10th April, 566 7 10 1/2 1757, as p Ditto,.......................... To Ditto for Scalping Service, as p Ditto, ........ 103 0 0 £4206 1 5 1/2