RESOLUTIONS

PASSED SINCE THE REVOLUTION, WHICH ARE CONSIDERED
                 PROPER TO BE PUBLISHED.

        REVISED AND PREPARED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE.
 

                            FEBRUARY SESSION, 1777.

                                            No. 1.
    RESOLVED, That Messrs. Thomas Brooke Hodgkin, William
Wilkins and John Johnson, or any two of them, be and are hereby
appointed a board of auditors, for the purposes herein after mentioned;
and the said board shall meet as soon as possible, and qualify
before some justice of the peace, by taking the oath of fidelity to
this state, and an oath well, diligently, and faithfully to execute the
duty of their office agreeable to this resolve, and by subscribing
their belief in the christian religion, and shall appoint their clerk.
That the business of the said board shall be to attend on the Mondays,
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, in every week, and oftener if required;
to take into their care and possession the books, papers and
accounts, of the late board of accounts, and continue the same in
the best and plainest manner; to audit and state all accounts and
sums of money due from or to this state; to audit and pass all accounts
against this state, if in their judgment they are just, and to
reject or correct such charges they may think are unjust; to transmit
all accounts by them settled, with the respective balances struck, to
the governor and council, or the council, for their examination
and countroul; to keep and state, and lay before the governor and the
council, the accounts of this state against congress, and against the
agents of this state in foreign parts; to call on all persons that
have had public monies advanced to them by order of the late conventions,
councils of safety, this general assembly, or the governor
and council, for an account of the expenditure thereof; to call on 
all persons who shall hereafter have public monies advanced to
them, to render an account of the expenditure thereof; to call on the
late treasurers under the old government, to render an account of
their proceedings, and the balances in their hands respectively, if
any; to call on the late committees of observation to render an
account of all monies by them respectively received; to render a
true and perfect account of all their proceedings to the house of delegates,
when required; to keep secret all such matters and things
as they shall be enjoined to keep secret by the house of delegates,
or the governor and council.

FEB SESS.
    1777.
 

Auditors appointed
—their duties.