the Sessions necessary and proper on this Occasion-That the Said
Committee then proceeded to the Marshalsea Kings Bench
and Hospital rate and Account on which head no money has
been raised Since the year 1732 It appeared by the Report of the
Committee of the House of Commons that Mr. Higgs had then
reced and that there remained with him on the Ballance
the Sum of £92,,17s,,5d. Since that Mr. Higgs has applyed to
that Service the Sum of £18,,18s. for which he produced his
Vouchers to the Said Committee and admitted he had now
undisposed of the Sum of £73,,19s,,5d. which Said Sum the Said
Committee are of opinion may be now brought to the
General Account as this Rate is for the future to be paid out
of the General County Fund-That the Said Committee
then proceeded to examine the Robery Rates and it
appearing by the Report of the Committee of the House of
Commons that there was then in Mr. Higgs hands the
Sum of £17,,9s,,9d Mr. Higgs produced to the Said Committee
his Account of these rates wherein that Ballance is Admitted
but there being £28,,16s,,9d due to him by that Account for
Law Charges in Defending two Actions brought against
the Hundred of Ossulston that Ballance is thereby Discharged
and the Sum of Eleven pounds Six Shillings and Eleven
pence half penny is become and now remains Due to
Mr. Higgs-That Mr. Higgs having also laid before the Said
Committee his Account of all moneys received and paid
by him for relieving and passing of Vagrants the Said
Committee examined the Same and the Vouchers
produced by him and find the Said Account to be true and
that the Sum of £46,,17s,,7d. is now remaining in Mr. Higgs
hands on the Ballance of this Account after Allowance
made to him of £4,,19s,,2d being the Sum reported by the
Committee of the House of Commons to be then due to Mr.
Higgs on Account of relieving and passing Vagrants In the
taking this last Account two Vouchers for the Payment of
Two Several Sums of money one for the Sum of £40. and the
other for the Sum of £15,, were not Produced to the Said Committee
the Said Mr. Higgs allodging they were left burned or mislaid
at the time of the late Fire which happened in Southampton
Buildings near to the House of the Said Mr. Higgs The Said
Committee therefore thought it proper Mr. Higgs Should
make and Affidt. to be Annexed to his Said Account that the
Said two Several Sums had been paid by him and that the
receipts for the Same were before the Said Fire in his