shall pay to the trustee the interest therein from the first of October last to the first of January
next.

    WHEREAS William A. Needham, by his petition to this general assembly, hath set forth,
that he was a sergeant in the late American army, and received a wound by a musket ball which
passed through his body, and has rendered him incapable of gaining a subsistence by labour; and this
assembly considering it reasonable that the same relief should be extended to the said William A.
Needham, as to others in similar circumstances, RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered to grant unto the said William A. Needham, in future,
half of the monthly pay which he the said William A. Needham received in the continental service,
by orders drawn quarterly on the treasurer of the western shore for the same, and that the same be
charged to the United States.

    WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that Abraham Gambell, late a soldier in the first
Maryland regiment, was wounded through the shoulder at Camden, on the twenty-fifth of April,
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, by means whereof he is unable to support himself by
labour, and this general assembly considering it reasonable that the same relief should be extended to
the said Abraham Gambell as to others in similar circumstances; RESOLVED, That the governor
and council be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to grant unto the said Abraham Gambell,
in future, such sum as, with the allowance he receives from the United States, will be equal to
half of the monthly pay which he the said Abraham Gambell received when in the continental service,
by orders drawn quarterly on the treasurer of the western shore for the same, and that the same
be charged to the United States.

    RESOLVED, That James Haynie, collector of the public taxes in Somerset county for the year
1781, be and he is hereby discharged from a bond by him given to the state of Maryland on the
_____ day of _____, 1786, to secure the payment of the balance then due from the said
James Haynie, as collector aforesaid, for treble taxes, including an interest thereon; and that the
treasurer of the eastern shore deliver up the said bond to the said James Haynie to be cancelled; provided,
that if the sum or sums of money already paid into the treasury by the said James Haynie for
the said treble taxes, and interest on the said bond, shall not amount to the sums of money received
and collected by the said James Haynie from the persons liable to the said treble tax, the said James
Haynie shall first pay to the treasurer of the eastern shore such further sum of money, including his
commission, as shall amount to the whole of such receipts and collections, to be ascertained by the
oath of the said James Haynie, to be administered by the said treasurer, and he paying all legal cost,
if any.

    RESOLVED, That Margaret Fisher, the executrix of Adam Fisher, late collector of the tax of
Frederick county, and her securities, be and they are hereby released from the debt due by them to
the state, upon their paying to the state the sum of fifteen hundred pounds in such certificates as may
be receivable in payment of arrearages of taxes, and indemnifying the state from all costs accruing
on suits or executions on their bonds; and upon the securities producing to the governor and council
the certificate of George Murdock and Richard Potts, Esquires, that they have secured to Margaret
Fisher, during her life, the annual interest of the balance remaining due on the said bond, after payment
of the said sum of fifteen hundred pounds, and to her children, the principal to be equally divided
between them at her death.

    RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to
contract with some skilful person to make the necessary repairs to the government house, and that they
draw orders on the treasurer of the western shore, not exceeding the sum of seven hundred and fifty
pounds, who is hereby directed to pay the same out of any unappropriated money in his hands, for
the purpose of making the necessary repairs to the said house.

    RESOLVED, That the half pay of a captain on the British establishment be allowed to William
Fitzhugh, of Calvert county, to be computed by the auditor from the third day of September, in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, until the first day of November, seventeen hundred and
ninety-one, and that the treasurer of the western shore be authorised and directed to issue a certificate,
bearing legal interest, therefor to the said William Fitzhugh.

    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and is hereby authorised to pay unto
Benjamin Galloway the sum of thirty-three pounds eleven shillings and nine-pence farthing,
that being the sum by him paid to the collector of the tax for Montgomery county on property assessed
in that county, which property was also assessed in Frederick county, and the assessment due thereon
paid to the collectors of the said county.

    WHEREAS it appears by the report of the trustee that many holders of certificates, received by
them in lieu of continental certificates under the act of November session, 1782, have subscribed the
same to the loan of the United States, and have received stock therefor of the following descriptions
and amount:  Of six per cents. 45,126 dollars and 17/100ths, three per cents. 33,844 dollars and 62/100ths,
deferred, 22,563 dollars and 0/100ths:  And whereas the said trustee has subscribed the original continental
certificates that were received in lieu of those issued under the said act of 1782:  And whereas
the act of congress requires that certificates issued by any states in lieu of continental certificate, shall
be exchanged or redeemed before interest can be paid on either description; therefore, RESOLVED,
That the trustee be and he is hereby directed to set apart and decline drawing interest on, or if necessary,
to transfer to the United States, so much of the different kinds of stock belonging to this
state as will amount to the sum so subscribed by persons who possessed the certificates issued under
the act of November session, 1782; and resolved, that resolved, that the said trustee be directed, in case the
time for subscribing to the assumption loan should be extended by congress, to set apart and decline
drawing interest on, or if necessary to transfer, in like manner, to the United States, for any further
sum of such certificates as may hereafter be subscribed.