lii Introduction.

Lower House and at the following session, May 1766, Green was summoned
to appear before the bar of the house. The journal of the house runs thus:
"Mr. Green having attended at the Bar of this House, and being examined
relative to his omitting to insert in the Printed Votes of the last Session,
the Accounts of the Clerks of the Council, sent down from the Upper House,
with a message of the pth of December, 1765; ordered, That Mr. Green do
print, with the Votes and Proceedings of this Session, the said Accounts......
The Question was put, Whether Mr. Green shall be Admonished, or Censured,
by the Speaker of this House, for omitting to Print, amongst the Proceedings
of last Session, the Accounts of the Clks. of the Council, sent down with a
Message from the Upper House...... Resolved, That Mr. Green be Admon-
ished by the Speaker. In Pursuance of the aforegoing Resolution, an Admoni-
tion being prepared to be delivered by the Hon. Speaker to Mr. Green; and
after many debates, whether the said Admonition, as drawn up, should be
received, the same was referred for further Consideration" (Votes and Pro-
ceedings of the Lower House, printed by Jonas Green, Annapolis 1766;
p. 91). None of the few known existing copies of the printed Votes and
Proceedings for the May 1766 session indicate that the account of the clerks
of the Council was either printed in it or distributed with it, but it was printed
as a separate pamphlet. In the Maryland Gazette for September n, 1766,
there appears the advertisement of the publication of the pamphlet which was
printed under the title: Province of Maryland. Council Proceedings, from
the loth of May 1756, to the I2th Nov. 1764. Annapolis: Printed by Jonas
Green, Printer to the Province. ij66. In this rare pamphlet, of which only two
copies are known, there first appeared in print the accounts of the clerk of the
Council which was the subject of such acrimonious dispute.

The Lower House thereupon appointed a committee of nine headed by
Thomas Johnson to examine the accounts of the clerk which had been sub-
mitted "and also to make an Estimate of the money reced from this Province
under Colour of Law for Support of Government and how these monies are
applied" (p. 216). This committee reported on the following day (pp. 219-
220). It declared that of the 102,743 pounds of tobacco claimed by the Clerk
of the Council, 41,014 pounds were charges for commissions on collections
received from tobacco inspectors, the clerks' attendance charges, Council orders
on petitions, and proclamations, and for recording an indenture relating to a deed
of settlement of the Province by the Proprietary, not properly chargeable to the
public. The committee also reported that there were filed, under the tobacco
inspection law, the names of those nominated by the several vestries as tobacco,
inspectors, and that those selected by the Governor from these names were
notified by warrants made out by the clerk, for which he charged a fee; that
there were amerciaments in the Provincial Court amounting to about 2,500
pounds of tobacco annually, which by law were disposed of by the Governor
and Council, who had given them to the Clerk. The Committee further reported
that it had not learned what disposition had been made of the estimated f 1,400
sterling export duty on tobacco, the tax collected on foreign shipping, and the
fines collected under the common law and the laws of the Province, which it had
been ordered to report upon (pp. 219-220).