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Trustees curbed unauthorized spending with Sola bills

Source: An Account shewing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia #176

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From 1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT.
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From the 9th June 1738, to the 9th June 1739.

Trustees curbed unauthorized spending with Sola bills
AS several Merchants and Captains of Ships had for their own Interest carried into the Colony from New-York and other Places, large Cargoes of Provisions, &c. great part of which (to save the Merchants from Losses) was taken in at the Store without a proper Authority from the Trustees and an Expense created thereby which the Trustees could not Estimate, nor have Ability to Discharge, and for which certified Accounts were returned to them; the Trustees published an Advertisement in the London Gazette, and Ordered it to be Published in the South-Carolina Gazette, and to be affixed upon the Doors of the Storehouses at Savannah and Frederica, That out of a due Regard to Public Credit they had Resolved, that all Expenses which they had Ordered or should Order to be Made in America for the use 24 of the Colony, should be Defrayed and Paid for in Georgia, in Sola Bills of Exchange only, under their Seal; and they gave Notice, that no Person whatsoever had any Authority from them, or in their Name, or for their Account, to purchase or receive any Cargoes of Provisions, Stores or Necessaries, without Paying for them in the said Sola Bills.