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WERE PRESENT,
The BENEDICT CALVERT, Esq; of the Upper
Honourable DANIEL OF ST. THOMAS JENIFER, Esq; House;
Mr. JOSIAS BEALL,
Mr. THOMAS CONTEE,
Mr. TURBUTT WRIGHT,
Mr. THOMAS BOND,
of the Lower House;
Mr. EMORY SUDLER,
Mr. RICHARD PARRAN,
Mr. JOSIAS HAWKINS,
Mr. JOSEPH GILPIN,
Who make Choice of, and appoint the Honourable Benedict Cal-
vert, Esq; Chairman, and J. Brooks their Clerk, and agree to make
the following Report, -viz.
YOUR Committee find by an Account from the Trustees in
London, dated the 29th Day of April, 1773, that they have
paid the late Commissioners Draft to William Worthington, for
£.637: 16 Sterling, and that they have purchased since October
Session, 1770, Capital Stock in the Bank of England to the Amount
of £.2850, that there was then £.27,500 Capital Stock in the said
Bank, which Cost the Sum of f .34,003: 4 Sterling belonging to this
Province, and a Balance of £.348 :7:6 Sterling in their Hands not
invested.
Your Committee also find, that the Commissioners have since
October Session, 1770, paid to sundry Claimants on the Journal of
Accounts and List of Debts, out of the Bills of Credit emitted for
that Purpose, and for which they have produced to your Committee
the necessary Vouchers and Receipts, the Sum of Dollars
.............................................. 764 170/183
To sundry Persons for torn and defaced Bills, which
your Committee have counted and burnt this present 1,879 70/180
Session,
That there is still due to sundry Claimants on the
Journal of Accounts and List of Debts, 1604 120/180
And that there remains in the Office in Bills of Credit,
of the Emission in 1767, unapplied, 13,638 177/180
17,887 177/180
That it appears by the Accounts of the Commissioners for emitting
Bills of Credit, which your Committee have examined, there has
arisen due from sundry Persons for Interest on their several
Bonds to the 29th of October last, the Sum of £.10,055:1: 10 1/2
Sterling, of which they have received £.9,571: 13: 1 1/2 Sterling, and
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Votes and
Proceedings
of the Lower
House,
printed by
A. C. Green
Nov. 27
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