The Upper House. 337

Tuesday the 5^th August 1760
They met accordingly present as yesterday and continued their
Examination of the Several Funds
They Adjourn til 2. O Clock & met accordingly
The Honble Richard Lee Esq^r appears
The Commissioners adjourn til to Morrow 9. O Clock

Wednesday 6^th August 1760
They met accordingly, present as yesterday, and further proceeded
in the Examination of the State of the Several Funds

They adjourn til 2. O. Clock and met accordingly and Continued
their Examination
They adjourn til To Morrow 9. O Clock

Thursday the 7^th August 1760
They met accordingly, present as yesterday and took under their
Consideration the Sum of £2121 part of the £40,000, raised by the
said and appropriated to the payment of Indian Scalps and as it
appeared to them highly improbable that the said sum should be
called for or applied to the purpose for which it was granted were
of Opinion that it was unnecessary and unreasonably burthensome
to provide for replacing the Same
They adjourned til 2 O Clock met and having finished the Ex-
amination of the Several Funds and made an Estimate of the
Amount thereof in five years by which it appeared there would
be a Deficiency of £14148..4..7 including £500 they proceeded to
compute and ascertain the Rate of the Additional Tax which was
Settled at 7^s/7^d p hundred Acres with the further sum of 7^s/7^d on
all Lands held by any Papist or reputed Papist refusing or neglect-
ing to take the Oaths prescribed by the said Act of which Rate
Certificates were immediately made out under the hands and Seals
of the Commissioners directed to the Collectors of the Land Tax
of Each respective County
They Adjourned til To Morrow 9 O Clock

Friday 8^th August 1760
Met, present as yesterday, and having revised the whole proceed-
ings sent for the Deputy Sheriff of Ann Arundel County, and
delivered to him the Certificates above named Inclosed and Indorsed
for his Lordships Service
Signed p Order, B; Nicholson Clk

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
Sept. 29