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To the last interrogatory this deponent answers and saith, That on Tuesday on which the house of delegates
met, he was sitting in the lobby with Mr. Washington Tuck, when Mr. J. H. Thomas moved the house to ap-
point a committee to inquire into the expenses incurred by the executive in fitting up the house of delegates
room: After this, and after the house had determined to proceed to the election of the council, Mr. Tuck made
some observations to this deponent, which he cannot stare verbatim, but they amounted to this.... That it was
well for the council that the election came on on that day before their conduct could be inquired into, for that
it would not bear an investigation. And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to before the Subscriber this 24th of December, 1808.

JAMES SHAW, Recorder of the City, of Annapolis.

(H.)

Dear Sir, December 24, 1808.

IN answer to your note of this morning, relative to the Messrs. Tucks account against the state of Mary-
land, I can only say, that on the day which Mr. William Tuck presented the two orders for payment, the
one dated in June for Dolls. 758, the other in August for Dolls. 530, after a few remarks relative to the transac-
tion, Mr. Tuck said, that in his life he never was more surprized, on opening of Mr. Pinkney's note, to find it
contained two orders embracing the full amount of his claim, for from the previous conduct of the executive it
was what he least expected in as much too, he said, that in the last conversation which he had with the executive,
or some one of them, on the subject, he had told them, that after keeping him out of his money for so many
months, that he thought it impossible that they could now pass his account with propriety for the full amount.
Your's respectfully, H. H. HARWOOD.
JOHN H. THOMAS, Esq.

December 24th, 1808. Personally appeared before me, Henry H. Harwood, whose signature is affixed to
the within, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that the fact contained in the within letter
are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
BURTON WHETCROFT, Mayor.

(No. 1.)
Present the GOVERNOR and all the COUNCIL.

COUNCIL, March 25, 1807.
THE Board having considered the resolution authorising them to order such repairs to be made to the se-
nate chamber and the room occupied by the house of delegates, as to them shall appear necessary, likewise
the resolution authorising them to furnish the house of delegates with twenty-one convenient writing; desks, and
so forth came to the following Order.... That William Tuck be employed to do the workmanship, in carrying
the designs of the legislature into effect, as relates to the fitting up and repairing the house of delegates room:
That the room be laid off in circular form, and that the desks be raised one above the other as nearly like the
room occupied by congress as maybe practicable: That the said house of delegates room be furnished with a new
carpet and completed by the time of the meeting of the legislature: That James Lusby and Robert Davis be em-
ployed to fit up the senate chamber, by repairing the desks and chairs now out of repair, and make as many
new ones as may be necessary to complete the number of fifteen, and that the said senate chamber be provided
with a new carpet.

By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk.

In COUNCIL, May 2, 1807.

ORDERED, That the treasurer of the western shore pay to Mr. William Tuck the sum of three hundred dol-
lars, to be used in repairing the house of delegates room, and by him to be accounted for.

By order, NINIAN PINKNEY, Clerk.

(No. 2.)

The State of Maryland, To William & Washington Tuck.
TO altering, repairing and furnishing house of delegates room, Dolls. 3, 288 00

CR.
By cash, 300 00

Balance, Dolls. 2, 988 00
By cash, 1, 700 00

Dolls. 1, 2888 00
Annapolis, December 5th, 1807.

Anne-Arundel County, viz.

ON this 5th day of December, 1807, appeared William Tuck and Washington Tuck before me the subscri-
ber, a justice of the peace for the county aforesaid, and made oath that the above account is just and true as it

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