228 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 24, 1749.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
June 24

sundry Persons Between the 29^th day of September 1748 and the
29^th day of March 1749 to be sunk According to the Directions of
the Act aforesaid being part of the Original Sum of £89990
Your Committee Observe that in a Letter from the Trustees in
London to the Commissioners or Trustees in Maryland dated the
18^th April 1749 Signed W^m Hunt J. Hanbury, the following Para-
graph is contained
Your Act of Assembly has directed Us to send such Testimonials
relating to the Purchasing and Disposal of the Bank Stock as cannot
be put in Execution And therefore to Answer the same End and
Purpose of Satisfying the Country in that Particular We herein
send you a Notary Publick Testimonial or Certificate, That on the
12^th November last there then stood in the Bank books in the Names
of Us and M^r Joseph Adams £24000 of that Corporation Capital
Stock which Testimonial we find Lodged in the said Office & is as
follows
I Benjamin Bennett of London Notary and Tabellion Royal and
Publick by Royal Authority duly Admitted and sworn do hereby
Certify and Attest unto all whom it may Concern that on the day
of the date hereof I went to the Transfer Office of Stock of and in
the Capital [Stock] of the Governor and Company of the Bank of
England in the City of London and there speaking to a Clerk he
Exhibited unto me a Leiger of Accounts of Stock of and in the Capi-
tal Stock af^d marked (M) wherein at folio (808) I saw and Read the
Account of William Hunt John Hanbury and Joseph Adams of
London Esquires whereby they are Credited in their Joint Names for
Twenty four thousand Pounds Stock of and in the Capital Stock of

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the Governor & Company of the Bank of England whereof an Act
being required I have Granted this present One under my Notarial
form and seal of Office to serve and Availe as Occasion shall require in
London this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand Seven hundred forty Eight
In Testimonium Veritatis
[Seal] Ben Bonnett Not. Pub. 1748
Which Testimonial whether such as this Province has a Right to
from the Bank is humbly submitted to the Consideration of both
houses of Assembly
Your Committe take Leave further to Observe that so much time
has been Spent in Counting the Money burnt as af^d that a Proper
Inspection into the Office and Proceedings of the Commissioners
af^d cannot be made during the continuance of this Present Session
which your Committee humbly Conceive is very near a Conclusion
Sam Chamberlaine

T Sheredine

John Henry

Darby Lux

Edw^d Tilghman

J Goldsborough

Rich^d Lloyd