406 Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775.

Lib. No. 86

23^rd As to the Ferrys over the several Rivers within this
Province you are to Let them to such Persons who shall apply
for the same, upon Leases for three years, they paying to His
Lordship's use Three Pounds Sterling for every Lease by you
granted.

24^th You are to receive from the several Officers, Author-
ised to collect the same, the Alienation Fines which may be-
come due on the Alienation of Lands (these are at present
collected by the Clerks or private Persons appointed by the
Agent in the several Counties but may be hereafter collected

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by the Farmers) also such Fines and Forfeitures as may
become due to His Lordship under Acts of Assembly, or at
Common Law, which are to be collected by the several Sheriffs
according to Lists thereof to be to them delivered by the Clerk
of the Provincial and Clerks of the several County Courts, for
collecting which, the said Sheriffs are at the Time of their
accounting for the same, to be allowed a Commission of Five p
Cent.

25^th You are after the 29^th of September in every year to
compel as herein before directed, the several Naval Officers,
Farmers of the Quit Rents, Sheriffs, Stewards of the Manors
and Reserved Lands, Receivers of the Alienation Fines, and
all other Branches of the Revenue to settle with you, and pay
the Balances from them respectively due; and to close their
annual Accounts, and as soon as possible after they have so
done, you are to state every particular Branch of His Lord-
ship's Revenue in a clear and distinct manner. In your
Account Current for the year for which you have settled with
the Officers respectively, you will give Credit for the several
Sums received by you, as Agent, and Debit His Lordship with
your own Salary, and with such other Sums of Money as you
may occasionally Disburse in consequence of Instructions sent
by His Lordship to His Lieutenant Governor or the Revenue
Board and with such Sums as you shall, before the Closing of
such Account, have Remitted to His Lordship in Bills of Ex-
change, or Cash, on Account of that year's Revenue.
26^th When you have closed such your Annual Account you
will intimate the same to the Clerk of the Revenue Board, that
the Officers may be summoned to meet and examine the same.

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27^th You are to lay before the Board all and every of your
Accounts, particularly your Cash Account, with the several
Debt Books return'd by the Farmers of the Quit Rents, with
their stated Accounts as allowed by the Rent Roll Keepers,
The Lists returned by the Clerks of the Counties and accounts
returned by the Sheriffs of Fines and Forfeitures by them
respectively received. The Rent Rolls and Accounts return'd