Subject: Public Treasurers Accounts 21 April 1758
Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 22:50:52 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:52:04 -0500
From: Steve Coker
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Friday the 21st of April 1758.
"... An Account of William Pinckney Esqr., Commissary, for Wood for the Forces
amounting to £405, And,
An Account of Samuel Prioleau for Rent of a House for the Forces amounting to
£111:18:9, were Severally read.
Ordered that the said Accounts be referred to the Consideration of the Committee
appointed to audit the Accounts of the Creditors of the Public. And that they do
Examine the Same and report their Opinion thereupon to the House.
Mr. Guerard reported from the Committee appointed to Audit the Public Treasurers
Accounts, that the Committee had, pursuant to the Order of the House, Examined
the said Accounts & had Likewise in Conjunction with Several Members of the
Council appointed for that purpose seen Severall Paper Bills of Credit, Public
Orders and Tax Certificates destroyed, which Matters the Committee had directed
him to report to the House, & he read the Report in his Place, and afterwards
delivered it in at the Clerks Table, Where the same was read & is as follows,
Viz.
The Committee have Examined the Public Treasurers Books & find that the Amount
of the Duties arising on Deer Skins Exported from the 29th September 1756 to the
29th September 1757 is £2793:6:6 which amount is transferred to the General duty
Fund.
That the Amount of Duties arising on Sole Leather Exported from the 29th
September 1756 to the 29th September 1757 is £402:2:9. Which is also transferred
to the General duty Fund.
That the Income of the General Duty Fund from 29th September 1756 to the 29th
September 1757 including the two Sums abovemention'd is £24,727:4:6. Which Fund
Stands Charged with the following Sums to the above Time, Viz.
For Debentures £ 2983:14:01
Salaries of the Clergy 12667:17:06
Fortifications 5000:00:00
St. Michael's Church 200:00:00
State House 2500:00:00
Treasurers Commissions 1114:09:03
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£25966:00:10
>From whence it Appears that there is a Ballance of £1238:16:4 in favour of the
Treasurer.
That the Amount of Taxes on Good[s] imported By Transient Persons is £374:12:9
out of which £18:14:5, the Treasurers Commissions, being deducted Leave a
Ballance of £356:18:4 which is Carried to the Credit of the Account of Licences
for retailing Spirituous Liquors & both appropriated for discharging the
additional Pay to the Independent Companies doeing duty in this Province.
That the Income of the Tax on the first Purchasers of Slaves imported from the
29th September 1756 to the 29th September 1757 amount to £12,690 against which
Fund is Charged to the above time,
For Debentures £ 528:15:06
The Treasurers Commissions 330:09:04
To the Fund for Poor Protestant Settlers 9464:12:03
To the Fund for a Pest House, a Beacon,
now applied to finishing St. Michaels
Church 2366:02:11
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£12690:00:00
That the Fund Appropriated for building & repairing Fortifications from the 29th
September 1756 to the 29th September 1757 amounts to £12,558:2:9. And that the
Draughts made by the Commissioners for the Fortifications on the Treasurer
during the Time above mentionned, together with the Treasurer's Commissions
thereon, amounts to £20,136:13:6, by which it appears there is a Ballance of
£7573:11:3 in favour of the Treasurer, to the Time aforesaid. But the Committee
beg Leave to Observe, that there are Large Sums, that there are to come to the
Credit of this Account in the next Year; That the Fund for Building a Parsonage
House in St. Michaels Parish to the 29th September 1757, there is a Ballance of
£841:13:4 in favour of the Treasurer, but to reimburse him there is an Income to
this Fund of £200 per Annum.
That the Income of the additional Duty for Fortifications from the Passing of
the Act to the 29th September 1757 Amount to £2452:10:7 from which £61:6:3, the
Treasurers Commission, Thereon at 2 1/2 per Cent, being deducted, Leaves a
Ballance of £2391:4:4 in favour of this Fund; That of the Fund for Finishing St.
Michaels Church to the 29th September 1757 there is a Ballance of £793:3:0 due
to the Treasurer, of which he will be reimburs'd by the next Year's Income from
the General Duty Fund, & duties for Beacons & Pest House also applyd for that
Purpose.
That of the Fund for Building a State House to the 29th September 1757 there is
a Ballance of £16,270:16:8 in favour of the Treasurer, which will be reimbursed
by an Annual Income for four Years from the General Duty fund, & by Provisions
made in the Act of Assembly passed the 21st of May 1757.
That the Incomes on Licences for Selling & retailing Spirituous Liquors for the
Year 1757 Amounts to £2901:10:10 out of which the sum of £2184:9:8 has been paid
to the Commissary General for the additional pay of the Independant Companys,
which being deducted Leaves a Ballance of £717:12:2 in the Treasurey to be
Apply'd for same Purpose.
That the Amount of the Fund Appropriated for new Settlers to the 29th September
1757 is £25,799:19:4 out of which to the Same Time there is £7000 paid, which
together with The Treasurers Commissions thereon, £175 at 2 1/2 per Cent, being
deducted Leaves a Ballance of £18,624:19:4 in the Treasury in favour of Said
Fund. That the Income of Tax on Goods Sold at Public Auction from the 1st of
January 1756 to the 1st of January 1757 amounts to £1174:6:4. The Charges of the
Law Suit of Raper against Warham & Prioleau Amounting to £197 together with the
Treasurers Commissions of £48:17:3 being Deducted Leaves a Ballance of £928:9:1
to be apply'd as the General Assembly may please to Order.
That on Settling the Tax for the Charges of Gover[n]ment for the Year Ending the
25th March 1755 by Virtue of the Tax Law passed the 20th May 1755 Your Committee
find a Surplus in the Treasurer's Hands of £7140:14:5 of which £101:15:10 is
more than the Town & £7038:18:7 than the Countrys proportion of the said Tax,
but your Committee begg Leave to Observe, that there was no particular return
made to the Treasurer from the Welch Tract, owing as he inform'd the Committee,
to the Death of Mr. Wall, the Collector named in the said Law for that District,
from whom he only Received £350:15 & that when he heard of his Death, he wrote
Severall Letters to the Widow but had no Answer, & further That John Crawford
Esqr., whose Son married the Widow, promised to make Inquiry into the Affair &
That if any papers relating to the Same or more Money belonging to the Public
was found, that he woud transmitt the Same to him, but that as he has had no
Answer from the said Crawford, he concludes nothing was found.
The Committee have not Settled the Tax for the Charges of Government for the
Year Ending the 25th March 1756 by reason that the Treasurer inform'd them, that
several of the Collectors in the Country had not finally settled & paid him
their Collections, Your Committee find that the number of Certificates Issued
for Payment of the Estimate annex'd to that Law were 1985 amounting to £85159 of
which Certificates the Treasurer produced 1094 amounting to £46497 which your
Committee with a Committee of the Councill have burnt to Ashes so that there
Remains 891 of These Certificates amounting to £38,662 to be brought into the
Treasury in order to be Exchanged & Sunk.
By a report of the Last Committee on the Treasurers Accounts there remain'd
outstanding 12 Certificates that were Issued in the year 1753 Amounting to £542,
Seven of which amounting to £327 The Treasurer produced, which your Committee
with a Committee of the Council have burnt to Ashes, so there remains to be
brought into the Treasury to be Exchanged in Order to be Sunk, 5 of those
Certificates amounting to £215; Your Committee find also by the report of the
said Committee there remains to [be] brought into the Treasury 108 Certificates
of those Issued in the Year 1754 Amounting to £5087 of which your Committee & a
Committee of the Council have burnt 79 amounting to £3784 so there yet remains
29 of Said Certificates amounting to £1303 to be brought in to the Treasurer to
be Exchanged in order to be Sunk.
Your Committee find also by the said report of the former Committee that there
were outstanding 594 Certificates Issued in the Year 1755 amounting to £29,562
of which your Committee with a Committee of the Council have burnt to Ashes 384
amounting to £18788 & there now remains of the said Certificates 210 amounting
to £10,774 to be brought into the Treasury in order to be Exchang'd and Sunk.
Your Committee with a Committee of the Council have burnt to ashes 34
Certificates Issued for Building St. Michaels Church amounting to £1500. Your
Committee find that there remain'd in the Treasury by report of the Last
Committee £1221:5:0 of the £63,000 Orders Issued in the Year 1742 for the
Assistance of Georgia & Defence of this province of which the Treasurer produced
the Sum of £483:15 which were burnt to Ashes by your Committee & a Committee of
the Council which being Deducted from the above sum Leaves a Ballance of £737:10
yet in the Treasury for to Exchange the rest of those Orders.
Your Committee also find by the report of the Last Committee that there was
£137:10 of the Fortification Orders Issued in the Year 1745 not brought into the
Treasury, of which the Treasurer produced £20 which being burnt by your
Committee with a Committee of the Councill from whence it appears that £117:10
of said Orders are Still to be brought in & Exchanged in Order to be Sunk.
Your Committee with a Committee of the Council have burnt one £4 [&] one £8 of
the Orders Issued in the Year 1740 for the Expedition against St. Augustine for
which provission is to be made to reimburse the Treasurer as the Ballance of
that Fund was apply'd in Aid of Taxes for the Year 1753.
Your Committee also find that there was a Ballance of £279:15:9 in the Treasury
for Exchanging of the Old Currency Issued in the Year 1731 of which the
Treasurer produced the Sum of £13:8:3 which your Committee together with a
Committee of the Council have burnt to Ashes, So there remains Still to be
brought in to be Exchanged the Sum of £266:7:6.
Your Committee with a Committee of the Council have burnt to Ashes the Sum of
£1604:2:6 of Torn & Obliterated Currancy which together with the Sum of £6321:10
burnt by former Committees amounting to £7925:12:6 which being deducted from the
£20,000 provided for Exchanging said Currency Leaves a Ballance of £12,074:7:6
in the Treasury for the same Purpose...."
Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5
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