Session House for Middlesex
24th. January 1785.

Minutes of the Committee appointed to examine and adjust from time
"to time the Account or Accounts of the Treasurer of this County as well with
"respect to his Receipts as his Expenditures and also to examine and audit
"all demands of what nature or kind soever made of this County previous to
"the Payment thereof."

Present
Jacob Leroux< no role > Esqr in the Chair
Thomas Gordon< no role > Esqr
Joseph Hackney< no role > Esqr
Nathaniel Conant< no role > Esqr
Richard Heaviside< no role > Esqr.

Read the Minutes of the last Meeting

Proceeded to reexamine the Accounts and found that the Sum of 17s/
in favour of the Treasurer on the 1st. day of October last in his Account page
54 of Money paid for apprehending Vagrants had been twice added and
therefore that the same should be part of the Balance due from the
Representative of the late Mr. Benson

Mr. Eyles reported that he had conversed with our Phillips
respecting his Receipt to the Treasurer for £50 on Account of Mr Umpeville that
Mr Phillips declared he had paid the said Sum to Mr Umpeville and that
the same ought to be deducted from the Account of £108..16..0 paid to the said
Mr. Umpeville by the Treasurer that the Balance due to the County will be
£50 more than stated in the Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee
And that by the addition of the two Sums abovementioned the balance from
the Representative of Mr John Benson< no role > in respect to the County Rate is
£128..13..4½

County Rents

£ s d

It appears that the balance on the last Account
settled as mentioned in the last Minutes was}
2..9..11

That Mr Benson has since received half a
Years Rent of the Quakers to Michaelmas 1783}
21..0..0

NB the Quakers acknowledge a Year & a Quarters
Rent in Arrear to Christmas 1784

That he has since received for Rent of the Tap at
New Prison to Michaelmas 1784}
45..0..0

£ s d

60..9..11

That the charge of 1s. in the Pound always allowed
for collecting of the County Estate}
3..6..-

That the Balance remaining in the hands of the
Representative of Mr Benson lin respect to the County Estate is}
£65..3..11