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L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
April 24
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Cr.
By Error in Debit of Fort Account p last Report, ... 70 0 0
By sundry Sums since expended as p Ditto, ....... 271 9 4
By Ditto for Arms and Ammunition as p Ditto, ..... 1240 3 2
By Ditto on Account of Wheat purchased as p Ditto, 15 40
By Ditto for Recruiting the 300 Men for Royal
Americans, ............................... 101 19 0
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By Cash of that Fund applied by Virtue of an Order
for Quartering Soldiers in Arms [Annapolis, in - 200 0 0
printed Journal] ..........................
By Ditto for 1 new and 2 old Companies, ......... 69 1 5 0
By Ditto for 1 Scalp & Commission, ............. 51 10 0
By Ballance in Agents Hands,.................. 2186 0 11 1/2
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p. 98
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The above Ballance, as will appear by the aforegoing Accounts,
consists of £153.17.3. Part of the Sum granted for Constructing
Fort Frederick. &c. most of which the Agents inform the Com-
mittee is expended, but the Accounts from the several Claimants
are not yet come in; £1422.14.10. for the Purchase of Arms and
Ammunition, whereof £1370.14.11. is exchanged for Bills, and
now in the Hands of Mr. John Buchanan, of London, Merchant,
for that Purpose; £24.16. the Ballance unexpended of the Money
granted for purchasing Wheat, on which Account there are still some
Claims from New-York to come in; £51.10. of the Scalping Money
drawn out of the Paper Office for that Service; the Sum of £36.10.
Surplus on the Fund for Recruiting his Majesty's Royal American
Regiment, and the Sum of £496.12.10 1/2. Surplus on the Grant for
Raising and Supporting Capt. Joshua Beall's Company, and Continu-
ing Two old Companies on Foot, to the 10th of April, 1757, which
Two last Sums, amounting to £533.12.10 1/2. except a Claim of about
£25. which the Agents say is due to Capt. Alexander Beall, and the
Estate of Capt. Tobias Stansbury, the Accounts whereof are not yet
adjusted, is at the Disposal of the General Assembly. Your Com-
mittee having also examined the Accounts of the Disposal of the
Money granted by the Act of Assembly for his Majesty's Service,
made at a Session of Assembly held at Baltimore-Town in April,
1757, do find, that the Agents aforesaid, by Virtue of the same
Act, have, since last Report, received from the Commissioners for
Emitting Bills of Credit, by Virtue of an Order drawn by his Ex-
cellency the Governor for that Purpose, the Sum of £1881.19.8.
which, together with the Sum of £579.15. the Ballance remaining in
the Agents Hands, the Sum of £657.3.2. Bounty-Money in the Hands
of several Recruiting Officers unaccounted for, as by Report last
Session, and the Sum of £235.17.8. taken out of the Office as afore-
said, to pay sundry Persons who furnished Provisions for the
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