The Upper House. 213

An Act to increase the Sallaries of the Inspectors of Snow Hill
Warehouse in Worcester County and Plymouth Warehouse in
Dorchester County which were all passed and sent to the Lower
House by Daniel Dulany Esq

Read the Petition of several the Planters and Merchants of Charles
County on behalf of themselves and others praying a removal of
the Inspection House at Piles fresh from the place it now stands to a
quarter of a mile below where a salt House of M^r Piles now stands,
referred to the Consideration of the Lower House and sent by
Richard Lee Esq

Samuel Chamberlaine Esq from the Committee appointed to
Inspect the Accounts and Proceedings of the Commissioners of
the Paper Currency Office brings in the following report
Maryland ss.

At a Committee of Both Houses of Assembly appointed to Inspect
the Accounts and Proceedings of the Commissioners for emitting
Bills of Credit established by Act of Assembly April 4.^th 1760

Were present

The honourable Samuel Chamberlaine Esq of the Upper House
Chairman

Mess.^rs Walter Dulany, Michael Earle, Alexander Williamson,
Robert Lloyd, John Hanson Jun., Josias Beall jun and John Tru-
man Stoddart of the Lower House

Who agree to make the following Report
Your Committee think it Necessary at this Time to report to
your Honours that as soon as it was Convenient after their Appoint-
ment they Attended in the Paper Currency Office in order to proceed
to their duty when they were informed of M^r Richard Dorsey Clerk
of that Office that by means of his long indisposition the Books and
Proceedings of the said Office were not in a proper state and Con-
dition for their immediate inspection but that he would use his
endeavours in a few days to have them so, in a short time after which
he was as your Commitee are informed again taken so ill as to be
incapable of Attending his Duty and has been ever since confined
to his House in the Country by which means and by reason of the
said Books and Proceedings not being yet in Order for Inspection
your Committee have not had it in their power to enquire Par-
ticularly into the state and Condition of the said Office or into the
Conduct and behaviour of the Commissioners or Trustees thereof
but think it their duty to Observe that the Books and Accounts
relative thereto seem to be kept nearly in the same irregular manner
as has been repeatedly reported to your Honours by former Com-
mittees which must ever in their Opinion, while they remain so,

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April s

render the enquiries of your Committees intricate, Difficult and
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