GEORGE III (1738-1820)

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GEORGE III (1738-1820)
Warrant on paper, signed 'George R' at the head, St. James's, n.d., 2pp with integral blank leaf, folio, to Henry Fox Esq., 'Paymaster General of our Guards Garrisons and Land Forces', subsequent to the Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his reign, allocating the sum of two hundred thousand pounds 'to give a proper compensation to the respective provinces in North America for the expenses incurred by them in the Levying Cloathing and Pay of the Troops', out of which 'the active vigour and strenuous efforts of our province of Virginia in North America...have merited the sum of eleven thousand one hundred and ninety five pounds', countersigned by Barrington, James Oswald and Gilbert Elliot (creased on folds with some small tears to folds, outer slightly discoloured).
With seven other similar warrants, relating to other provinces of North America, namely:
New York £25,000; Connecticut in New England £46,642; Pensilvania and the government of the counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware £28,545; Rhode Island £9,328; New Hampshire £9,328; New Jersey or Nova Cesaria £9,328; and Massachusets Bay £6,634.
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The lack of date would suggest that these documents remained unissued. However, judging by the signatories, these documents can probably be dated to the period 1761-1762. Henry Fox was Paymaster General from 1757-1762, William Wildman Barrington was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 21 March 1761 to 8 May 1762 and Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd baronet of Minto, held the post of Lord of the Treasury 1761-1762.

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