March 1st. 1760
I wrote on the 27th of February last by a
Gentleman to N York. This will inform you that the Assembly have
resolved to grant £100,000 for the raising paying and cloathing
2,700 Men to Act in Conjunction with his Majestys Forces during the
ensuing Campaign and have got their Bill into the Hands of a
Committee for those Purposes.
As we shall follow the Plan of the Law enacted
last Year we hope to get it with the Governor very soon, and
reserve a Bill for settling the Quotas for each County to the
latter End of the Session at which Time we hope to be furnished
with the Duplicates of the last Year’s Taxation throughout the
Province, but as this difficult Work of proportioning the several
Counties may be imperfect on the first Essay the House agree
generally to continue it for One Year only.
I send inclosed a Second Bill of Exchange John
Hunter on Messrs. Thomlinson &c. No. 3638 for a Hundred Pounds
Sterling which Please to receive. I am Your Assured Friend
Carolina appears to be in great Distress and under the
apprehensions of an Indian War. I send inclosed at your Request a
Power of Attorney to which Our Friend Charles Beatty is an Evidence
and who will be on the Spot to prove it if he has a prosperous
Voyage which I heartily wish him.
To all People to whom these Presents shall come I Isaac Norris of
the City and County of Philadelphia in the Province of Pensylvania
in N America Esquire send greeting Know ye that I the said Is
Norris have made and ordained and by these Presents do make ordain
and in my Place and Stead put and constitute Benjamin Franklin at
present residing in the City of London Esquire to be my true and
lawful Attorney for me and in my Name and to and for my proper Use
to demand and receive of and from all and every person and persons
of what Degree or Quality soever whom it now doth shall or may
concern all and every such Sum and Sums of mony Dividends Payments
and Profits which now are and which shall hereafter become due and
payable to me for and respect of all or any Annuities Yearly or
other payments payable and belonging to me for and in Respect of
all and every or any such Capital Stock or Stocks which I now have
or hereafter shall have in the Bank of England or in any other Fund
or Stock whatever. Also for me and in my
Name to accept of all such Capital Stock or Stocks which I have
already bought or contracted to buy or shall hereafter buy or
contract to buy of any person or persons whatsoever upon the
transferring thereof according to the usual Manner of transferring
the said Stock or Stocks and to pay such Sum or Sums of Mony or
Consideration for the Purchase of all such Capital Stock or Stocks
upon the transferring thereof from Time to Time as I shall in that
Behalf order. And upon receipt of the
premises or any part thereof for me and in my Name from Time to
Time to make and give sufficient Acquittances and Discharges. And I
do hereby give and grant unto my said Attorney full Power and
Authority to do and perform all Matters and Things relating to the
Premises as fully as I my self might or could do was I personally
present. And I do hereby ratify and confirm all and whatsoever my
said Attorney shall legally do or procure to be done in and
touching the Premises. In Witness whereof I
the said Isaac Norris have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the First
Day of March in the Year of Our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred and
Sixty.