Report of the Committee to prepare a state of the Publick Funds

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Mr. Caswell from the Committee appointed to take into consideration and report a state of the Publick Funds, reported as follows, viz:

Whereas, in order to make a proper and correct state of the Publick Funds, it would be necessary your Committee should have recourse to the publick accounts, which are in the hands of the Treasurers, and to the estimates of publick allowances and journals of the Assembly, which cannot conveniently be had here: they have therefore proceeded on the best information they have been able to obtain, and find that there are divers large sums of money due from sundry Sheriffs and other collectors, a great part of which, in the opinion of your Committee, will be lost to the publick, unless some method is immediately fallen upon to enforce the payment of the same, which your Committee earnestly recommend to the attention of the Congress.

That there are also divers sums of money due from the publick to individuals, and no money in the hands of the Southern Treasurer on the contingent fund to discharge the same: what may lie in the Northern Treasury on that fund your Committee have not been able to inform themselves.

That since the passing a resolution in the Assembly that the Rum Duties, and the one Shilling Tax for sinking the old Bills should cease, the law imposing the same having had its effect, sundry sums have been paid for such duties to the Collectors and to the Sheriffs for the said tax. Your Committee are of opinion that the money received on the former should be returned to the persons from whom the same was received, and also that the latter be either returned to the persons from whom received, or allowed them in the payment of any future tax. All which is submitted to the consideration of the Congress.

R. CASWELL, Chairman.

Ordered, The same lie for consideration until Saturday next.

Report of the Committee to prepare a state of the Publick Funds. [1775-08-29] North-Carolina, Provincial Congress; Caswell, Richard. [S4-V3-p0191] [Document Details][Complete Volume]