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to you by the Stewards of the Manors and Reserved Lands,
Lists of Devises and Alienations, and the Accounts return'd
by the Receivers of the Alienation Fines, and all other Acct^s
and Papers which might serve to give the Board full Informa-
tion, and when your Accounts are passed & certified, you are
to transmit the same to His Lordship by the first opportunity,
All which Papers relative to said Accounts, and a Duplicate
of said Accounts, shall be lodged in the said Office that refer-
ence may at all times be had thereto.
28^th With respect to such Bills of Exchange taken by you
on His Lordship's Account as may be Protested, you are to
keep a separate and distinct Account thereof.
29^th It is expected that you will have your accounts ending
the 29^th day of September ready for Inspection on the 25^th of
March at farthest in every year.
Lastly. As it may happen in carrying into Execution the
Directions contained in the Instructions aforesaid, the Agent
may have doubts in respect of the Object to be attained and
the Design and view thereof. He is therefore when any such
Doubts shall arise to lay the same with the Grounds thereof
explicitly before the Commissioners in order and for the pur-
pose that all necessary and proper Explanations may be given
to Him, and as it may also happen that Circumstances in the

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Transaction of the Agent's Duty may occur for which a com-
petent Provision may not be made in the aforesaid Instruc-
tions, He is then to represent such Circumstances to the
Commissioners that such order may be given therein as the
Nature of the Case may require.
June 30^th 1768. Sign'd p order of the Board of
Revenue
John Clapham Clk

Ordered. That a Reserve be laid, for His Lordship's use on
all Vacant and Escheat Land lying and being in the Town of
Baltimore in Baltimore County, or within the Distance of
Five Miles thereof, or of any part thereof, of which you are
desired to make an Entry on Record, and to take the greatest
Care to prevent any Survey being made within the same,
either by expressly mentioning the Reserve in all Warrants to
be issued out of the Office or in such other manner as may
make the same known and remove all pretence of Ignorance.
There being large Tracts of Land Reserved for the Indians
which the English have encroached upon made Surveys and
got Grant of them and deny the payment of Quit Rents, alledg-

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