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

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and to give him notice that the Board will again meet on
Monday next to receive the Account aforesaid.
As to the Insinuation contained in M^r Alien's Letter that
the Board have assumed Powers which they have thought
proper to relinquish, or any other Insinuation respecting the
Authority of Government, the Board do not think the same
worthy of their Regard.

The Instructions to the Commissary General and Deputy
Commissaries were read and approved.
Ordered, that the Clerk do proceed in making out fair
copies of the several Instructions to the different officers con-
cerned in the Receipt and management of the Revenue in order
for their being transmitted to His Lordship by the first Con-
veyance.
The Board adjourn til Monday the 5^th of December next

December 5^th 1768

p. 41

The Board met according to Adjournment. Present.

His Excellency Hor^o Sharpe, Esq^r
The Honble Daniel Dulany, Esq^r
The Honble Walter Dulany, Esq'
George Steuart, Esq^r
& Thomas Jenings, Esq^r

M^r Jenings in pursuance of Directions from the Board at
their last meeting, makes the following Report.
On Wednesday Morning the 30^th of November 1768, I went
to the House of the Rev'd M^r Allen, in consequence of the
Direction I had received from the Board of Revenue, to re-
quest him to lay an Account of his Transactions as agent be-
fore them. I was informed by his Sister that he was from
Home and his Return uncertain; she desired me to signify my
Business to her, and that she would acquaint him with it. I
told her that as he was not at Home, I would call again; She
then asked me if my Business concerned the Agency, I told her
it did; She then desired to know if it respected the Affairs I
was to put in Suit, I replied it did not, and told her I would
call again. On the Thursday or Friday Evening following
his Sister called at my House and signified to me, that she
thought it would be best for me to write to her Brother which
I declined, and desired her to send me word when he returned
and that I would wait on him. On Sunday Morning the 4^th
of December 1768, I received a Note from M^r Allen desiring
to see me in the Afternoon, at which time I went and ac-
quainted him with the request of the Board, that he would lay