440 DORSET r. HAMMOND.—1 BLAND.

culator and accountant * of the Court. He is stationed near
467 to the Chancellor, and, when, any calculations or statements

respectively laid before them pursuant to the within commission, according
to the best of their knowledge and understanding.

"To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq'r. Chancellor of Maryland, &c.

" We the commissioners, within named, do hereby certify, that hy virtue
of the within commission to us directed we did, after being legally sworn
thereto, and after the appointment, and due qualification of Mr. Daniel
Chamier as our clerk and assistant therein, meet at the house of Mr. Daniel
Barnet in Baltimore Town, on the third day of October, seventeen hundred
and sixty-three, in the presence of Caleb Dorsey the within mentioned com-
plainant, and Benjamin Beal of Annapolis, on the part and behalf of the
within mentioned defendant, in order to adjust, audit, and settle all ac-
counts relating to the matters in dispute between the said parties, and did
there and then proceed to settle, adjust, and audite, and did there and then
settle, audite and adjust in the presence of the said complainant, and the
said Benjamin Beal, after hearing all the allegations of the said complain-
ant, and the said Benjamin Beal, all accounts relating to the matters in dis-
pute as aforesaid; which settlement appears by the annexed accompt and
vouchers, and which we humbly submit to the approbation of your Excel-
lency."

After which the account referred to is entered at large, and then follows
this decree.

SHARPE, C.. 14th February, 1764.—It appearing to this Court hy the report
made by John Stevenson. Bryan Philpot, and Lancelot Jacques, three of the
four commissioners who. or three or two of whom were appointed to state,
audite. settle, and adjust all accounts relating to the matters in dispute, that
there is due to the said complainant Caleb Dorsey, six hundred and ninety-
nine pounds ten shillings and four pence half-penny sterling, from the said
defendant Henrietta Maria Dulany, as administratrix aforesaid, after de-
ducting and discounting the bond and two promissory notes in the said de-
fendant's answer mentioned, to wit, the bond of the said complainant to
the aforesaid Edward Dorsey, dated the twenty-first day of February,
seventeen hundred and fifty-seven, conditioned for the payment of one
hundred and fifty-six pounds nine shillings and eleven pence half-penny,
current money at or upon the first day of April then next with legal inte-
rest, and the complainant's promissory notes to the said Edward Dorsey,
one dated the fifteenth day of September, seventeen hundred and fifty-
seven, for sixty-two pounds two shillings and four pence sterling with legal
interest, and the other dated the tenth day of October, seventeen hundred,
and fifty-nine, for two hundred and fifty pounds and eleven shillings ster-
ling with legal interest.

Whereupon this Court doth think fit, and accordingly doth order and de-
cree, that the said defendant Henrietta Maria Dulany, out of the goods,
chattels, rights and credits which were of the aforesaid Edward Dorsey,
deceased, at the time of his death, in her hands remaining to be adminis-
tered, pay to the aforesaid Caleb Doesey the said balance of six hundred
and nine-nine pounds, ten shillings and four pence half-penny sterling, and
also that she deliver up to the said Caleb Dorsey, the said mentioned bond
and two promissory notes to be by him cancelled, destroyed or otherwise
disposed of as he shall think fit.— Chan. Proc. lib. D. D. No. J. 315.