From Thomas Life: Bill for Services
AD: American Philosophical Society
<A long and chatty bill running from November, 1770, to
February 2, 1771, for services in connection with BF’s Georgia and
Pennsylvania agencies. The principal entries for Georgia, in
November, January, and February, are (1) for attending BF to consult
on various papers sent him by the Assembly and on its act for
governing slaves, for accompanying him in conferences with Jackson
and others, for searching to find the Board of Trade’s report on the
act, and searching again to find that the Privy Council had approved
it, £4 4s.; to Jackson for reporting the act, £5 5s.;
to his clerk, 10s. 6d. (2) For obtaining true copies of
the act for electing members of the Assembly, £1 1s. (3) For
drawing up the petition from inhabitants of Georgia to the King in
Council, and for various minor services, £5 1s. 2d. The
total for Georgia was £16 1s. 2d. The entry for
Pennsylvania, under Feb. 2, 1771, is for attending the Board of Trade
to find out what it had done with two acts of Assembly for issuing
paper bills of credit, to the amount of £14,000 and £6,000
respectively, and for discovering that the King in Council would do
nothing about the Board’s report upon the acts, “by which Means they
would pass of Course,” 13s. 4d. The total bill, £16
14s. 6d, was receipted as paid in full on Jan. 18,
1773.>
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