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The Upper House. 417
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To ditto of ditto on £2000 for 2 1/2
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Years from April 1757 to Octor
1759 which would have Cost £119
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Liber No. 35
April 24
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p C:t £2380 then ditto ..........
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To ditto of ditto on £2000 for 1 1/2
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Years from April 1758 to Octor
1759 which would have Cost then a
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117 p Cent £2340...............
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By Stock Bought September 1759
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p. 475
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£2000: at £112..10 Cost..........
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By ditto Feby 1760 f 3000 111 p Cent.
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Loss by Interest £556.. 5 difference to
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the disadvantage of the Province
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besides accruing Interest on the
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Dividends had they been turned
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into Capitol ..................
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And Your Committee likewise find that the Naval Officers for
the Port of Oxford and Annapolis have rendered their Accounts to
September 1760 Amounting to £505..11..3, which we presume the
Province will have Cred.t for by the Trustees in their next account,
The Account for Potomack District for the Year 1760 does not
appear to have been yet rendered, and Your Committee take leave
further to Report that after the most Diligent Search in the As-
sembly office they cannot find the Naval Officers Original Account
for Patuxent District for the Year 1754 nor is it entered by the
Clerk of the Lower House but a Blank Leaf is left in the Book
wherein the Other Accounts are entered and where that should have
been entered from the Loss of which Account they cannot Say
whether all the Bills due for dutys that Year in that District were
remitted or not but the Trustees have Credited the Province for
Bills remitted that Year by the Naval Officer of that District to the
Amount of £362..10..7 Sterling not charged in any other Account
by said Officer, and which sum is a Medium between the sums that
Duty raised in that District the preceding and Subsequent Years
from which we are inclined to believe Justice is done to the Province
but are of Opinion that it would be proper to procure a Duplicate
of that Account to have it entered in the Record Book whereby it
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