<Arthur Dobbs Esqr. £250 for ¼ ended 25th April 1763 as Govr. of No. Carolina.>
July 1763
Audor. Rect.
After &d By Virtue of his Majys. Letters of privy Seal bearing date the 3d day of July 1761 Thes Care to pray & require your Lordship to draw an Order for paying unto Arthur Dobbs Esqr. Captain General & Govr. in Chief in & Over the Province of North Carolina in America to his Assi[gn]s the sum of £250 without Acct for ¼ of a Year ended the 25th day of April 1763 on the Yearly Allowance or Salary of £1000 made payable to him by the sd. Letters of privy Seal in lieu of a like Salary formerly payable to the Govr. of the sd. Province out of the Quit Rents thereof to enable him to Execute his Commission & the Instructions thereby given him for his Majesty's Honour & suitably to the Dignity of the sd. Office And let the sd. Order be Satisfied out of any monies that as or shall be in the Receipt of the Excheqr. arisen or to arise for or upon Acct. of the Duty of 4½ ⅌ Cent And for &c Whitehall Treasury Chambers the 6th day of July 1763
A like Warrant for £250 for ¼ ended 25th July 1763 s[igne]d 4th Novr. 1763 G.G. JT. TOH.
Do. for 250 Do. 25t Octor. 1763 22d. Decr. 1763 GG. N. JT.
Do. for 250 Do. 25th. Janry. 1764 26. March 1764 GG. TOH. JH
Do. for 250 Do. 25 April 1764 25 July 1764 GG. JT. JH.
Do. for 250 Do. 25 July 1764 27 Sepr. 1764 GG. N. JH
Do. for 250 Do. 25th Octor. 1764 7 Janry. 1765 GG. TOH. Jas. H.
Ex[ecuto]rs of Arthur Dobbs Esqr. a like Lre for 425 for 12s. of a year & 63 daces ended 29th. March 1765, being the day he died as appears by the annexed Certificate Warrant dated 26 July 1765 & [Signed]
Rockingham
These are to Certify to whom it may Concern that Arthur Dobbs Esqr. late Governor of North Carolina, died in that province the 29th day of March last as Witness my hand intend on this 24th day of July 1765.
Edwd. Brice Dobbs and royl. Fuziliers Son to the Deceased Govr. and one of his Ex[ecuto]rs.
