A member from the House of Assembly, attending at the door, was admitted and returned to the Chair the following bill passed this session, to wit: "An act for aiding the discontinuance of the process in the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Goal Delivery in the Counties of New Castle and Sussex, and for other purposes therein mentioned." Also delivered the report of the joint committtee for settling and adjusting public accounts, to wit: "The joint committee appointed for settling and adjusting public accounts report that they have examined the accounts of his Excellency John McKinly, Esquire, and there is due to him a balance of £707: 2 : 9, allowed him, on a former settlement, as Military Treasurer of New Castle County; and £48, as signer of the late paper currency, and £20, it being the interest of £755 for 3 months and 3 weeks, and sundry other sums advanced by him since, as by his accounts appear, and the further sum of £713 11 o, together with commissions on 1,113 11:0, at 22 per cent., the whole amounting to £1,516 10 3. "Your committee do further report, that on examining an account exhibited by John Clowes, Esquire, do find a balance due him of 10 for attending the press when printing money; "To Samuel Crossan, on the examination of his account, a balance due to him of £20, which he is entitled to receive upon his producing a certificate from a Justice proving the facts set forth in his account with respect to a horse lost in the service; "To Jonathan Robinson the sum "* Ordered, That Col. Collins wait on the House of Assembly with the several allowances made by that House to the report of the joint committee and concurrence of Council thereto. Also, the bill entitled "An act for aiding the discontinuance of the process of the Courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, &c.," as signed by the Speaker. * A memorandum here says: "Get from Mr. Booth," and then follows a long blank space for inserting other items. A member from the House of Assembly, attending at the door, was admitted and delivered to the Chair the following resolution, to wit: "On motion, "IN THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, "Resolved, That the President and Commander-in-Chief be "impowered and required to draw on the Trustees of the Loan "Offices for this State respectively, or any of them, for the sums 'agreed to by the General Assembly to be due to the persons "hereafter mentioned upon the reports of committees, out of the "sum of £10,000, struck and given for the defence of this State "in pursuance of an act entitled 'An act for printing and emit"ting £15,000 in Bills of Credit of this State, to be let out on "loan, and for striking the further sum of £10,000 in such bills "for the use of the State and for providing a fund for sinking "the same,' he taking receipts for said draughts: "To Capt. Bassett, . "To Mr. President, "To Samuel Crossan (on his complying with the terms prescribed by the committee), "To James Adams, "To John Baning, "To Gen. Rodney, Col. Collins and Jas. Latimer, £ 20 16 3 1516 10 3 20 00 216 13 I I IO O 123 15 O 38 10 O 20 26 £ 1957 17 I "IN THE HOUSE of Assembly of the Delaware State, SATURDAY, P. M., June 7th, 1777. "On motion, "Resolved, That the President and Commander-in-Chief affix "the Great Seal of this State to the bill entitled 'An act for aid"ing the discontinuance of the process in the Courts of General "Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Goal Delivery in the Coun"ties of New Castle and Sussex, and for other purposes therein "mentioned.'' Ordered, That Major Sloss wait on the House of Assembly with the above resolution and concurrence of Council thereto. Who, being returned, reported, &c.* *Thus ends Mr. Clay's journal. |