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That the said Treasurer pay to Henry Ridgely Esquire Fifty pounds for one quarter's
Salary as aforesaid,

That the said Treasurer pay to John Kilty Esquire Fifty pounds for one Quarter's Salary
as aforesaid.

That the said Treasurer pay to John Davidson Esquire Fifty pounds for one quarter's
Salary as aforesaid,

That the said Treasurer pay to William Hindman Esquire Fifty pounds for one quarter's
Salary as aforesaid. [p. 297]

Ordered that the western shore Treasurer pay to Robert Denny Fifty pounds for one
quarter's Salary as Aud'r. General due the 1st. instant,

That the said Treasurer pay to Christopher Richmond, One hundred and fifty pounds for
one quarters Salary as Agent due the 1st. instant,

That the said Treasurer pay to Jubb Fowler Eighteen pounds fifteen shillings for one
quarter's Salary as Messenger to the Council and keeper of the State House due the 1st. instant,
and also the further sum of Fourteen pounds, nine shillings due him per Account passed by
the Auditor,

That the said Treasurer pay to James Williams Eighteen shillings and six pence for
Locks &ca. for the Government House per Account signed by his Excellency the Governor.

That the said Treasurer pay to the Revd. Mr. Higinbothom Two pounds, ten shillings
for six Months tuition of Master Thomas Walley at St. Johns College.

The Board took into consideration the settlement of an Account between the State and
Col. Moses Rawlings, by which as it is adjusted by the Auditor Col. Rawlings appears to owe
a balance of two hundred and twenty two pounds, four shillings and six pence red money with
interest 'till paid—from which balance he prays to be relieved in part and to have the interest
remitted, for which he offers the following reasons.

That during the late War he was employed by the State as a purchasing Commissary,
That supposing his accounts of Receipts and expenditures to be nearly balanced he did not
make a point of settling them finally, when to his great surprize he was called upon last
year to pay nineteen hundred and seventy five pounds, five shillings which appeared on the
Auditors Books to remain due from him to the State, that being confident that the public was
in possession of the vouchers for his expenditures which would entitle him to a credit for the
greater part of the said balance, he made a laborious but unsuccessful search for them and at
length made two expensive Journies to New York and Philadelphia, at which last place he
was fortunate enough to find the papers which have enabled the Auditor to reduce the Charge
against him to the present balance of two hundred and twenty two pounds four shillings and six
pence, that in addition to the Consideration of [p. 298] the great Expence and trouble
of these Journies he thinks himself entitled to a reduction of the same from the circum-
stance of the money's being actually worth but half its nominal value at the time he received
and expended it.

The Board being well assured of the truth of the foregoing representation, and con-
sidering it highly improper that an individual should be put to such extreme difficulty through
the remissness of the Officer who neglected to give Colo. Rawlings the proper credits, and
being convinced that the money was considerably under the value of specie when he received it,
do in virtue of the Resolution of Assembly which empowers them to settle all open Accounts
upon equitable principles, direct that all interest on the above Account be remitted, and that