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| Sept. 26. |
Report to the Treasury Lords from John Povey (in the absence
of William Blathwayt) on the memorial of Mr. Brooks. As Receiver
General of the public revenue in New York he has yearly transmitted
four quarterly accounts of the public revenues arising there by the
Customs, Excise, the King's Beam, Quit Rents and such Aids as
have been sent thither from the adjacent Colonies for the security
of the frontiers of that Province, to wit from 31 Jan. 1690–1 (when
he first entered upon that Office) to 7 June 1698 when he was suspended by the Earl of Bellomont. These quarterly accounts are
all certified by the Deputy Auditor to be truly stated and Col.
Fletcher has certified to most of the said accompts during his Government that he believes them to be true charges and discharges of the
revenue for the respective quarters. The accomptant has also produced a receipt from Mr. Cortland (one of the present Commissioners
for the receipt of said revenue) for the balance [remaining on the foot]
of said accompts. The accomptant has further, since his coming
into England, delivered in an accompt of the Additional Duty raised
by several Acts of Assembly in New York in 1692 and since [that
year], for payment of the debts of the Government and other uses
expressed in the said Acts and an accompt of the taxes raised by
public rates by Acts of Assembly in New York for the security of
the frontiers during the war; which accompts I have examined with
the vouchers produced by him. I have made several objections
thereto as below. In reply the accomptant's agents allege that they
are ready to answer provided they may have time to send to New
York for the vouchers that are wanting. Whereupon your Lordships
being attended with a short abstract of the said accompts you
ordered copies of same to be sent to the Earl of Bellomont for
examination with [by] the accomptant's vouchers in New York.
Those accompts are now ready to be sent to said Earl. To save
him trouble and expense his vouchers may be examined here rather
than sent to New York. In this case he may be allowed time to
send to New York to complete his said vouchers. |
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Followed by: objections to Mr. Brooks' accompts of the revenue
[of New York]. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Charge
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32094 |
15 |
2¾ |
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Discharge:
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for Col. Slaughter's salary |
516 |
6 |
11 |
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for Col. Fletcher's salary |
365 |
12 |
10½ |
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for the Earl of Bellomont's salary |
95 |
12 |
5½ |
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for his [Brooks'] salary |
455 |
16 |
8 |
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for sterling money |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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1442 |
8 |
11 |
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for payments upon orders not
expressing for what service |
1032 |
0 |
7¼ |
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for Pennsylvania Expedition
upon the credit of that
Province |
401 |
13 |
5½ |
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2876 |
2 |
11¾ |
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The accomptant produces
regular orders and receipts for
these [abovesaid] payments
justifying himself thereby for
having paid the same according to his Instructions except
for his own salary, &c. |
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Payments upon defective vouchers. |
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to Major Schuyler in 1691 |
19 |
18 |
0 |
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to ditto in 1691 |
11 |
9 |
11 |
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to Robert Stone in 1693 |
17 |
4 |
4½ |
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to Robert Aliston in 1693 |
11 |
5 |
0 |
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to John Clap in 1694 |
31 |
2 |
9 |
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to Hellick Cornelish in 1695 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
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to Stephen Cortland in 1695 |
36 |
3 |
5½ |
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to John Trevot in 1695 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
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to John Messo in 1695 |
5 |
1 |
11¾ |
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to Augustin Grahme in 1696 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
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to Isaac Deschamp in 1696 |
10 |
6 |
1½ |
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to Hendrick Renslaer in 1696 |
9 |
9 |
0 |
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to Hellick Cornelish in 1697 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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to Francis le Comte in 1697 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
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to George Lockart in 1694 |
18 |
7 |
5½ |
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to Daniel Honan in 1694 |
105 |
0 |
0 |
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to Depeyster in 1694 |
37 |
0 |
0 |
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to bills of incidents in the accomptant's office for the last
10 quarters without orders |
84 |
18 |
1 |
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to himself for agency in England
in 1698 without order |
179 |
9 |
0 |
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616 |
6 |
9 |
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The accomptant has omitted to
charge himself with |
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the bills received from Maryland about [the year] 1693 |
390 |
0 |
0 |
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money advanced to the public
about 1692 for fitting out
Major Schuyler's Dragoons |
329 |
18 |
4 |
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money advanced to the
public about 1692 for Col.
Slaughter's funeral |
209 |
9 |
0 |
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929 |
7 |
4 |
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Memorandum: there is a further deficiency in the voucher produced for 60l. per an. allowed to the Minister of Albany which appears
to be received by Mr. Clerkson the Secretary as his [the minister's]
Attorney: but the letter of attorney is not produced as a voucher. |
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To the accompt of the Additional Duty, the whole charge whereof
amounts to about 9294l. 7s. 9½d. The payments made in discharge
of this accompt appears to be chiefly to Col. Bayard and Mr. Cortland,
without expressing for what service, except 1882l. 13s. 4¾d. transmitted [transferred] to the accompts of the Ordinary Revenue and
there accompted for. "But no order appears to warrant this transfer
and [the transfer of] 1l. 7s. 8d. paid as the balance of this accompt
to the present Receiver [successor to said Brooks]. |
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For the general vouchers of this accompt the accomptant produces
a copy of the Journal of the Assembly of the 20th June 1698, attested
by the Secretary of the Commissioners of Trade to have been received
by him of the Earl of Bellomont's Agent here; whereby it appears
that besides the said 1882l. 13s. 4¾d. the sum of 4443l. 15s. 8½d. had
been issued out of the said Duty pursuant to the Acts of Assembly:
which [sums] being in all 6326l. 9s, 1¼d. there remains 2967l. 18s. 8¼d.
to be accompted for by the accomptant; for which he is ready to
produce the receipts of Mr. Bayard and Mr. Cortland for his discharge. |
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To the accompt of Taxes: amounting to 27079l. 11s. 11¼d. |
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For the voucher of this whole accompt [there] is produced the
copy of the Journal of the Assembly 20 June 1698, attested by the
Secretary of the Commissioners of Trade to have been received by him
from the Earl of Bellomont's Agent here; whereby the accomptant
is allowed to have paid by warrants from the Governor and Council
out of the taxes |
24527 |
18 |
3 |
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Of the remainder [being 2551l. 13s. 8¼d] he
discharges himself by an account of debts
standing out |
£1589 |
6 |
8¼ |
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the balance paid to Mr. Cortland by order |
658 |
7 |
5½ |
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the residue by several articles craved by the
accomptant amounts to |
303 |
19 |
1½ |
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[sic ? for |
303 |
19 |
6½] |
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£27079 |
11 |
11¼ |
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Out Letters (Plantations Auditor) II, pp. 26–27, 28–30. |
