To Benjamin Franklin from Francis Eyre: Bill and Receipt, [10 August 1761]
From Francis Eyre: Bill and Receipt
DS: Library Company of Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklyn Esqr
For Samuel Preston Moore’s Private Act of Assembly, past in Pensilvania and confirmed by His Majesty in Council.6
1761.
| 16. Janry. | Fees at the Council Office | ||||||||
| Order referring said Act to a Committee | 3: | 2: | 6 | ||||||
| Copy of the Act annexed | 1: | –: | – | ||||||
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2: | 2: | 6 | |||||
| Copy of the Act annexed | 1: | –: | – | ||||||
| 5 June | Committee Report thereon | 1: | 10: | – | |||||
| 25 Do. | Order confirming the Act | 4: | 2: | 6 | |||||
| Record Keepers Fee | 2: | 2: | – | 14: | 19: | 6 | |||
| NB. This Act was referr’d among Others by Mr. Penn, who payd for it in the Gross, yet the Fees are thus charged to Mr. Eyre. | |||||||||
| NB. also, The Board of Trade referr’d it with Others to their Counsel, And have hitherto made no Demand; If they do their Fees will be inserted. | |||||||||
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5: | 5: | – | ||||||
| Do. to his Clerk | –: | 5: | – | ||||||
| Do. for a Copy of his Report | –: | 10: | 6 | ||||||
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10: | 10: | – | ||||||
| Paid Porters Petty Expences and Gratuitys | 5: | 5: | – | ||||||
| £36: | 15: | – | |||||||
Reced the 10th. of August 1761, of Benjamin Franklyn Esqr. thirty six Pounds fifteen Shillings, in full by me
Fras. Eyre7.
Recd. Jany. 18 1762 of S.P.Moore the above sum in Current money at 75 percent per C[urren]t Exchange amounting to £64. 6. 3.
D Franklin
6. This bill well illustrates what it cost a colonial, whose affairs necessitated a private act, to get that act confirmed in Great Britain. For the circumstances in this case and the procedures involved, see above, pp. 271–2 n, 278, 279, 333, and the letter immediately below.
7. BF recorded this payment in “Account of Expences,” p. 61; PMHB, LV (1931), 131.