When this account was produced to the general court by the accurate and intelligent Director who made it out, he declared that he had dissented in the court of Directors from the opinion of the other Directors as to the 12-1/2 per cent. dividend, in which he had been joined by several other Directors, though a majority opposed this dividend, and he explained the above account in a very clear and satisfactory manner, and shewed, that in the preparing the account, he had made the most ample allowances of every kind, and declared himself ready to answer every objection which the other Directors could offer against it.--The other Directors fairly acknowledged that none of them had carried their calculations so far down as February 1768, when the dividend was to become payable. * * * * * [Transcriber's Notes: The transcriber made these changes to the text to correct obvious errors: 1. p. 11 councel --> council 2. p. 12 commodies --> commodities 3. p. 20 50l. --> 50_l._ 4. p. 20 subsistance --> subsistence End of Transcriber's Notes]