The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-08-04

tobacco was ordered to be levied at No
vember court, 1775, and collected i'll year
l776, amounting to four hundred and six
ty-three pounds, six shillings and seven
pence half-penny; that there remained in
the hands of the said Christie, due the
commissioners aforesaid, on the 31st day
of December, 177G, the sum of nine hun
dred and sixty-six pounds, thirteen shil.
lings and three pence, with interest. That
on application of Mr.. Aquila Hall, Jr., to
the said commissioners for the loan of one
hundred pounds of public money, an or
der was drawn on Robert Christie, Jun'r,
Esq, then sheriff of Baltimore county,
about the 1st of May, 1776, Tor the sum of
one hundred pounds, which the said Mr..
Hall received and kept on interest until
February 22d, ITS, and then paid the
said commissioners the sum of one hun
dred and eleven pounds, principal and in
| terest that the difficulties Of the times
and no person applying to take the public
money at interest, the sum of thirty-nine
pounds received of Mr.. Taylor as part of
| Interest, and the sum of one hundred and
eleven pounds received of Aquila Hall,
Jr., as principal and interest, amounting
both sums to one hundred and fifty pounds,
lay in the hands of the commissioners
who thought most advisable, for the bene-
lit Of the public, to purchase with the same
four State Loan Office certificates of one
hundred dollars each, TO wit: No. 542,
543, $50 and 551.
Your informant humbly conscious that
your worships, from the above state, will
discover the situation the public moneys
ordered by the law aforesaid to be collect
ed by the commissioners aforesaid now lie
in; and your informant, for illustration,
will further observe to your worships that
in the year 1777, or 1878, (of which the
informant can't be quite certain Mr..
David McMeehan, then prosecutor for Bal
timore and Hartford counties, received the
commissioners order in writing, in Har-
ford county aforesaid, referring him to the
law to bring suit against Mr.. Robert Chris
tie, Jun'r, and his securities in Baltimore
county, for the recovery of the sum due
him-the commissioners having previous
thereto drawn an order on the said Chris
tie for the sum due from him in favor of
Mr.. George Patterson, which order, on
being presented to the said Christie, or the
person doing his business, was denied
which was the reason the commissioners
thought proper to order the said suit; that
your informant is informed that Mr.. John
Taylor did, on or about the 31st day of
December, 1880, at the houses of Mr.. John
Matthews and Benedict Edward Hall, two
of the commissioners, offer moneys in pay.
ment of his bonds to the said commission
ers, which was not received by them, and
they informed this informant; and your
informant further adds that he received
note about the time last mentioned, in the
words following: SIR-You are desired
to take note that l intend taking the de-
position of Samuel Caldwell and John
Taylor, Jr., at the house Of Col. Gabriel |
Vanhorn, at Hartford Town, on Friday, the |
first day of December next, between the
hours of twelve and four o'clock of the
same day, to be hereafter read in evidence
between you and Others as commissioners
of Hartford county public buildings. and
myself at which time you are advised to |
attend. am your humble servant,
JOHN TAYLOR.
That your informant at the time of re-
cciving the above note was indisposed at
the house of Mr.. Jacob Giles, Jr. and was
incapable of attending as was desired; and
has not since heard what was done at the
meeting.
Your worships must be very sensible of
the imprudence depressing for the payment
during the last year Of the continuance of
the lender law Of any money which had
the least semblance oAbeing we'll secured,
which consideration has been the reason
why Mr.. Robert Christie, Jr., as it was not
doubted but his securities were sufficient,
was not close pressed for the money col
lected by him. Your informant and his
associates being very DESTROYS of being dis
charged from their trust on being reasona-
bly, secured, it lies with your worships
which way that can be most seasonably
done. Your informant would only add,
that before any law passed to suspend the
authority of the commissioners from pro-
ceeding in the execution of the trust re-
posed in them, Mr.. Calder, then surveyor
of Hartford county, did attend and lay out
two acres of ground at Hartford Town, for
which your informant and Col. Aquila
Hall (deceaseD advanced for his fees
your informant paying him one half Jo-
names of the money, A Johannes is
Portuguese gold coin of eight dollars, hum
bly, prays your worships would pay him
the sum he so advanced.
August 29th, 1889. AMOS GARRETT.
The above report was probably adj
dressed to the Justices of November
Court" unless there was Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners in those days--which
is not likely.l