adequate to the payment and discharge of the interest arisen and to arise on specie
certificates issued by the state, that then the yearly supplies for defraying the expences
of government should be appropriated to make up the deficiency:  And
whereas the interest received from the debtors of the state is greatly insufficient
to pay the interest due on said certificates, and the justice and dignity of the state
require, that provision should be made without further delay for the payment of
the said interest; RESOLVED, That so much of the funds appropriated to the
payment of the journal of accounts, the civil list, the allowance to the delegates
to congress, and the payment of fifteen hundred pounds to Samuel Sterrett, attorney
for Messieurs Vanstaphorst, which shall remain after answering the said
purposes, be applied to the discharge of the said orders, and payment of one
year's interest on certificates, giving preference to the holders of such certificates
on which no interest has been drawn, in case application is made to the treasurer
on or before the first day of August next.

    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised
to issue to Luther Martin, Esquire, on account, a certificate for six hundred
and seventy-five pounds current money, being the amount of his account for
fees, exhibited this session to the committee of claims, but not passed upon, the
said certificate to be receivable in all state taxes; provided that the said Luther
Martin, Esquire, lodge with the said treasurer, before the issuing of the said certificate,
a copy of the said account.
    RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore be and he is hereby authorised
to issue to John Gwinn, Esquire, clerk of the general court for the western
shore, on account, a certificate, payable in all state taxes, for such part of the account
of the said John Gwinn for fees, as shall be certified by the committee of claims
as proper to be allowed, provided that the said John Gwinn lodge with the treasurer
as aforesaid a copy of the articles so allowed by the committee of claims;
and the treasurer of the western shore is hereby required to receive the accounts of
the said officers, and to charge the amount of their fees against the debtors to this
state, in the suits against whom respectively the said fees became incurred, and to
compel the payment thereof, as well as the sums of money for which executions
may issue on the judgments obtained against them.

    RESOLVED, That three persons be appointed in each county in this state,
to view and inspect the books, records and papers, in the several public offices in 
their respective counties; that they have free access to the same, and that they, or
a majority of them, report the state and condition thereof to the next general
assembly.
    RESOLVED, That for the above purposes Messieurs Zachariah Forrest, Joseph
Ford and Henry James Carroll, be appointed for St. Mary's county; Messieurs
Thomas Smyth, William Sluby and Oliver Smith, be appointed for Kent county;
Messieurs Nicholas Worthington, Allen Quynn and William Harwood, be appointed
for Anne-Arundel county; Messieurs Joseph Wilkinson, William Allein
and John Gantt, appointed for Calvert county; Messieurs Samuel Hanson, senior,
Henry Henly Chapman and William Hanson McPherson, appointed for Charles
county; Messieurs Samuel Johnson, attorney, William Goodwin and James
Calhoun, appointed for Baltimore county; Messieurs William Perry, Howes
Goldsborough and Henry Nicolls, for Talbot county; Messieurs Samuel Wilson,
John Done and William Polk, be appointed for Somerset county; Messieurs
Robert Harrison, James Shaw and John McDowell, be appointed for Dorchester
county; Messieurs John Gilpin, William Matthews and Tobias Rudolph, be
appointed for Cæcil county; Messieurs Stephen West, Samuel Hepburn and John
Smith Brooks, be appointed for Prince-George's county; Messieurs Richard
Tilghman, Robert Walters and William Richmond, be appointed for Queen-Anne's
county; Messieurs William Morris, William Purnell (Crapper's Neck)
and Peter Chaillie, junior, be appointed for Worcester county; Messieurs George
Scott, John McPherson and John Riche, be appointed for Frederick county;
Messieurs William Smithson, John Love and William Pinkney, be appointed for
Harford county; Messieurs Philip Walker, John Brown and Henry Downes, be
appointed for Caroline county; Messieurs John Barnes, Denton Jacques and
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