102 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 22, 1773.

Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Nov. 27

your Committee have counted and burnt this present Session, 535
Dollars; and that there remains in the Office for the Purpose of
changing torn and defaced Bills of Credit, the Sum of 7905 13/18
Dollars.
That the said Commissioners have since the last Report paid away
to Charles Wallace, the Sum of £.4953 Sterling at sundry Times, by
virtue of Orders from the Superintendants of the public Building
in the City of Annapolis; for Office Expences including their and
their Clerk's Salaries, the Sum of £.640: 15: 0 1/2 Sterling; and for a
Bill of Exchange, the Sum of f .30 Sterling remitted for Stationary
pursuant to an Act of Assembly passed at June Session, 1773, for all
which the said Commissioners have produced to your Committee
the necessary Vouchers and Receipts; and that there now remains
in the Office, the Sum of £.1053: 19: 3 3/4 Sterling of which there is
the Sum of £.1049: 13: 3 Sterling in Bills of Credit of the Emission
in 1767, and the remaining Balance of £.4:6:4 3/4 Sterling consists
of Gold and Silver, and Bills of Credit emitted in the Year 1770.
Your Committee further report, that the Accounts of the said
Commissioners are clear and regularly stated, in Consequence of
which they have been able to subjoin the following State of the
pecuniary Property of this Province under their Management, and
where the same is vested, viz.

p. 54

1773 The Province of MARYLAND Dr.

To Bills of Credit of the Currency rating Sterling
Emission in 1767, to be sunk, Dollars at 7/6
paid sundry Claimants by vir- each
tue of different Acts of Assem- 57,362: 4: 9
bly,
To Bills of Credit of the
Emission in 1767, to be sunk,
paid Bedding field Hands, Esq;
late Treasurer of the Eastern-
Shore, per Act of Assembly, 638: 13: 3
To Bills of Credit of the
Emission in 1767 to be sunk,
that still remains due to sundry
Claimants on the Journal of
Accounts and List of Debts, 601: 15: 0

£58,602: 13: 0
at 66| per Cent

To Bills of Credit emitted in Discount is 35,161 119 1/2
1770, to be sunk, 67,500 .. ..
To Balance due the Province, 26,698 1 7 3/4

£. 129,359 13 5 1/4