Continued Thursday 29th Janry 1795
.
That the Committee had requested the Auditor General to purchase
some Sheeting for the use of the Servants at an expence not
exceeding £20.
The minutes of the Committee of Auditors of the 31st. Decemr last were
read and confirmed whereby it appeared
That the Committee had audited the Accounts for the last three
months and found that the sums which were in the hands of the
different Officers amounted to £4518.9.4.
Tyrell, Timothy< no role >
Esqr.
Sharp Sutton< no role >
Esq
Elected Govrs.
Harrison Robt< no role >
. Esqr.
Holford, Jno Josh< no role >
. Esqr.
Knowlys. W. C. Esqr.
Recd. Charges.
At this Court
Timothy Tyrell< no role >
Esqr.
and
Sutton Sharp< no role >
Esqr.
were
Elected Governors of these Hospitals
And the Charge was read to
Robt.
Harrison< no role >
Esqr.
John Josiah Holford< no role >
Esqr.
And
Wm. Cook Knowlys< no role >
Esqr.
Wight< no role >
Revd.
Moses
Decease
of Reported.
At this Court the Treasurer announced the death of the Revd.
Moses Wight< no role >
and reported he had received the following Letter from
the Revd.
Osborne Wight< no role >
addressed to the President Treasurer Auditor
Genl. and Governors of these Hospitals
"Gentlemen
Janry 16th: 1795.
"I beg leave to return my most Grateful thanks to you
"for the favors conferred on my late Father
and shall consider
"myself as further indebted if you will grant me the usual
"indulgence of remaining in the House which he lately occupied
"belonging to the Hospital till such time as I am enabled to remove
"from it with convenience to myself
"I have the Honor to be Gentlemen"
"your Obliged humble Servant"
"Osborne Wight< no role >
"
Resolved that this Court doth comply with the request of the Revd.
Mr. Osborne Wight< no role >
, And that they are the more willingly induced to this
compliance in consideration of the very Exemplary conduct of his Revd.
Father their late worthy Preacher, whose close and constant attendance for
a long series of Years to the several functions of his sacred Office
manifested the strongest sence of duly, and whose memory is also endear'd
to this Court by his Zealous Attachment to and Assiduous promotion of
the Interest of these Hospitals.