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behalf of this poor distressed Country, and of this Province in particular......
We were intrusted with the Disposition of some money upon this Occasion,
and inclose you a Bill of Exchange, on Messr. Capel and Osgood Hanbury,
for One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Sterling, as a Compensation for your
Trouble and Expence in this Affair". The writers add that the Maryland
Assembly will meet the last of the month, and with the proceedings of the
Congress before them it was probable that he would be written more fully, and
furnished with further instructions and arguments on behalf of the colony.
It was hoped that with a change in the Ministry that "a more enlarged View
of the true interests of Great Britain, and her Colonies" will prevail, and that
the rights and trade of the colonies will be given consideration. This letter is
printed in full in the appendix (pp. 354-356).

The account of the disposition of the £500 current money, appropriated under
the ordinance for the expenses of the three delegates to New York, printed
in the Jonas Green pamphlet, shows that the money was given to them in
gold in the form of Spanish pistoles, half Johannes, French pistoles, and
moidores. There had been spent for the personal expenses of the three dele-
gates £138: 14: I current money; and the cost of the £150 sterling bills of
exchange on London sent to Charles Garth was £247: 10:0 current money
on the basis of "65 per cent exchange"; and other minor expenses, including
an item for sending a copy of the proceedings of the Congress to Virginia,
amounted to £16: 10: o current money. This left a balance of £172: 7: 8 cur-
rent money in the hands of the accountants (pp. 353-354). As has been pre-
viously stated, the Assembly directed that this balance be turned over to the
Provincial Treasurer (p. 321).

Space does not permit a disctission here of what Charles Garth was able
to accomplish as the Agent in England of Maryland, on Stamp Act matters,
nor is he mentioned in either the Dictionary of National Biography or the
Dictionary of American Biography. There is, however, a short biographical
note on him in the Maryland Historical Magazine to the effect that he was of
the Garth family of Devizes, Wiltshire, and that he was Recorder of Devizes
and represented that borough in Parliament from 1765 to 1780 (Maryland
Historical Magazine Vol. VI; 1911, p. 420). In that same volume will be found
printed the lengthy letter, dated London, February 26, 1766, which he sent in
reply to that, dated October 26, 1765, written to him by the three Maryland
delegates to the Stamp Act Congress, referred to in the preceding paragraph
(ibid, pp. 282-305).

The Lower House, after again reading the letter to Charles Garth from the
three Maryland delegates, which has been quoted, and which does not appear
entered in the 1765 journal of either house, appointed a committee, headed by
Tilghman with Murdock and Ringgold as his associates, to which were added
James Hollyday, Daniel Wolstenholme, Charles Grahame, Thomas Johnson,
and Brice Thomas Beale Worthington, to draw up formal instructions to Garth,
to be sent to him by the Speaker, together with a copy of the address to
the King, and the memorials and petitions to the House of Lords and the
House of Commons; with formal notice to Garth of the concurrence of the