64 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1705.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 20.

by the several Naval Officers, by Virtue of the Act passed in the
Session of Assembly in October 1763 to sink the Paper Bills of
Credit to them brought in, & since June 7:^th 1764; The Trustees in
London have rendered no Account so that we cannot exactly ascer-
tain what the Balance now due to the Province may be. Your
Committee also find by the Naval Officers Accounts that the sum
of £848..9..9.. hath been remitted to the Trustees in London by the
said Naval Officers for Duties received before the 1:^st Day of
November 1763 which Sum is yet to be accounted for by the said
Trustees.
Your Committee having during the present Session counted &
burn't the sum of £35,719.. 4..6 being the Whole of the Money yet
brought in to be sunk, also £1920 appropriated for scalps & never
emitted, & Likewise £20,557..8..6 out of Iron Chests N:^os 1 & 2,
and there appears a Balance due, by the Books of the Office, in the
said Chest in Gold & Silver the sum of £11,557.. 13...10 3/4, on weighing
& Counting of which, we find £10,108..18..7 in Gold and £1464.. 15:
11 in Silver, & Bills of Exch:^ge for £142..0..11 Ster.^l paid in by the
Agents, & of Nine Pence half penny by Rich^d Lee Esq.^r Naval
Officer of Potowmac, as p the following Accounts more fully appears

P. 235 D.^r From Chest N:^o 2

£ S D

To Balance in Chest p Report November 24^th 1763

[3,109..18..10]

To Money paid in for Duties on Writs and Stamps
from November 22..^d 1763, to Nov^r 28..^th 1765 .

222.. 8.. 7

To Money paid in for Duties on Serv.^ts & Negroes
in same Time ............................

930..16..10

To Money paid in for Excise on Liquors in same
Time ...................................

571..16..11 3/4

To Money paid in for Ordinary Licenses in same
Time ...................................

728.. 4.. 9

To Money paid in for Land Tax ..............

1,345.. 10.. 4

To Money paid in for Tax on Batchelors ........

292.. 7.. 3

To Money paid in for Tax on Wheel Carriages .....

98.. 19.. 3

To Money paid in for Tax on Billiard Tables .....

17..11.. 0

To Money paid in for Duty on Pitch Tar & Tur-
pentine .................................

5.15.. 6 3/4

To Money paid in for Pedlars Licences ..........

27.. 6.. 0

To Money paid in by the Agents
Mess^rs Murdock Dick and Wolsten-
holme in Bills of Credit .........
And their Bill on Jn^o Buchannon Lon-
don for £142..0..11 at 33 1/3.........

£ S D

227..1.. 6

189.. 7..10 1/2
416.. 9.. 4 1/2

£7,767.. 4.. 9