376 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776.

desirous of being released, on or before the first day of January
next.

Mr. Horsey and Mr. Dickinson have leave of absence.

Adjourned till 3 o'clock.

POST MERIDIEM.

Convention met.

On motion of Mr. J. Hall, Resolved, That the council of safety
be empowered to draw for a sum not exceeding ten thousand
pounds, of the bills of credit now remaining in the hands of the
treasurer of the eastern shore, appropriated to the calling in and
cancelling the bills of credit issued by the convention in July se-
venteen hundred and seventy-five, and that they apply the same, or
any part thereof, to the use of the public, as occasion may require,
and that the same be re-placed in the treasury out of the new emis-
sion ordered by this Convention. And further Resolved, That in
case the new emission should be delayed, by not getting paper, or.
otherwise, so as to make it necessary, the council of safety be em-
powered to borrow, of such persons who are willing to lend, a fur-
ther sum of money, not exceeding twenty thousand pounds, to an-
swer the demands that may be made on them for public expenses,
or on the treasurers for money to be exchanged according to former
resolves, to be repaid out of the said new emission.

Mr. Worthington brings in and delivers to Mr. President a re-
port from the committee appointed to examine the claims upon
the treasury, which was read in the following words, to wit :

"By the committee appointed to examine the claims-upon the
treasury.

" In obedience to the order of the honorable convention, your
committee have examined the accounts of the treasurers of the west-
ern and eastern shores, and compared the payments made by them
with the vouchers, and find by account settled the thirty-first of
August a balance remaining in the hands of William Hindman,
treasurer of the eastern shore, in notes of credit to the amount of
seventeen thousand four hundred and seventy-seven pounds ten
shillings and ten pence; and by account settled to the ninth of No-
vember, a balance remaining in the hands of Thomas Harwood,
treasurer of the western shore, to the amount of seventeen thou-
sand seven hundred and twenty-four pounds six shillings and seven
pence, of which last sum there appears to have been paid to him,
nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five pounds by the treasurer
of the eastern shore since the settlement of the account with him.

" Your committee have, during the sitting of this convention,