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Proceedings of the House of Delegates, 1799
Volume 98, Page 13   View pdf image (33K)
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VOTES and PROCEEDINGS, November, 1799.            13

By the COMMITTEE of CLAIMS.

    YOUR committee beg leave to report, that they have examined the accounts and proceedings
of Thomas Harwood, Esquire, treasurer of the western shore, and find, by an account
settled by the committee of claims to the first day of November, 1798, there was a balance of
215,983 dollars 49 cents funded 6 per cent. stock, 259,126 dollars 87 cents funded 3 per cent.
stock, 70,421 dollars 85 cents deferred 6 per cent. stock, and £. 30,808 4 51/2 specie, remaining
in the treasury.
    That it appears to your committee, by the accounts of said treasurer, he hath received for
escheats, caution and improvements in land certificates, £. 2977 7 2 specie; for confiscated
property, 35 dollars 99 cents funded 6 per cent. stock, 30 dollars 54 cents deferred 6 per
cent. stock, and £. 70 6 101/2 specie; for taxes under the act for establishing and securing the salary
to the chancellor, £. 316 11 5 specie; for taxes under the act for the better administration
of justice, £. 394 6 21/2 specie; for militia fines, £. 28 2 6 specie; for bonds taken for vacant
land in Allegany county, £. 115 18 6 specie; from William Marbury, for the balance due from
him on the auditor's books, £. 3635 12 6 specie; from the commissioners of the city of Washington,
for dividends of interest on their bonds, £. 4500 0 0 specie; from Benjamin Harwood,
trustee, for dividends of interest and principal on stock, £. 10094 17 8 specie; from John Shaw,
for sundry articles belonging to the government-house, sold by him, £. 38 13 1 specie.
    That it appears to your committee, the said treasurer hath received from William Marbury,
Esquire, agent, for confiscated property, £. 11 3 0 interest funded 6 per cent. stock, 17,457
dollars 84 cents funded 6 per cent. stock 5,206 dollars 29 cents deferred 6 per cent. stock, and
£. 1371 5 5 specie; for taxes, 1450 dollars 79 cents funded 6 per cent. stock, and £. 142 4 10
specie; for bonds taken for money loaned, £. 276 7 3 specie; for bonds taken for open accounts,
82 dollars 80 cents funded 6 per cent. stock, and £. 12 4 0 specie; for bonds taken for Indian
lands, £. 110 12 4 specie; for fines and forfeitures, £. 1586 1 9 specie; for marriage licences,
£. 2127 13 5 specie; for ordinary and retailers licences, £. 3040 13 8 specie; and for taxes
under the act for the better administration of justice, £. 532 10 4 specie.
    That it appears to your committee, by the accounts of the said treasurer, he hath paid the sum
of £. 782 13 9 specie, agreeably to the resolutions of November session, 1797, in discharge of the
emissions of June, 1780, and the certificates issued under the acts of assembly of this state, which
emissions and certificates your committee have examined and cancelled; that it also appears
the said treasurer hath paid away, from the first of November, 1798, to the first of November,
1799, the sum of £. 37530 0 61/2 specie; for all which payments have been produced to your
committee the necessary vouchers and receipts; and that there remains in the treasury the sum
of 229,144 dollars 80 cents funded 6 per cent. stock, 259,126 dollars 87 cents funded 3 per cent.
stock. 75,658 dollars 68 cents deferred 6 per cent. stock, and the sum of £. 23866 19 01/4 specie;
which sum specie is appropriated in the manner following, viz.

Dr.  The STATE of MARYLAND.

To the following appropriations, viz.
    For the payment of the civil list,
    For half pay due to the officers and soldiers,
    For five months pay due to the officers and soldiers of the Maryland line,
    For pay due for services on board of the barges,
    For St. John's college,
    For the payment of the journals of accounts,
    For the redemption of the emissions of June, 1780, and the certificates issued
        by this state,
    For the payment of an order drawn on the treasurer by the commissioners
        appointed by a resolution of last session, empowering them to purchase
        for the use of this state 101/2 acres of land in Frederick county, whereon
        the barracks are erected,
    For the Washington academy, in Somerset county,
    For an academy to be erected in Baltimore or Harford county,
    For a school in Allegany county,
    For the expences of Indian lands,
    For the payment of the civil list, and other expences of government for the
        ensuing year,
 
 

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    That it appears to your committee there was the sum of £. 8850 of the emissions of bills of
credit made by an act of congress of the 10th of March, 1780, remaining in the treasury by the
said report, which sum has been since examined and burnt, agreeably to a resolution of November
session, 1798.
    That your committee find, by the last report, there was the sum of £. 3111 18 8 in said bills
remaining in the treasury, paid in on account of British creditors; that since the time the treasurers
hath paid away the sum of £. 325 6 10; for which payments have been produced to your

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