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

Lib. No. 86

Commission arriving in the interim from England) I shall
consider myself as virtual Agent, at least, of His Lordship
in Maryland. I am
Sir Your very hble servant
Dec^r 4^th 1768 B.Allen
To Thomas Jenings, Esq^r

Instructions to be observed by of county Esq^r
His Lordship's Rent Roll Keeper of the shore
To of County
I^st As soon as possibly you can, you are to provide good
Books and transcribe into them fair Copies of the Rentals of
the several Counties on the Shore, and when finished,
you are to lodge them with the Clerk of the Revenue Board :
and in order that this work may be speedily compleated, you
may take to your assistance, one, or more fit Persons as the
Service may require; and the Board will give His Lordship's
Agent directions to pay a Sum adequate to the Service of such
Persons and for the Cost of the Books.
2^d You are annually to enter in the Rental of each County
the additional Roll returned to you by the Judges of the Land
Office

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3^d You are also to Enter in the said Rolls from the Lists
which shall be returned by the Commissary General, or Reg-
ister of the Prerogative Office, all Alterations in the Posses-
sion and Title of Lands whether the same shall happen by the
course of Descent or by Devise and also from the Lists which
shall be returned by the Clerks of the Provincial and County
Courts all Alienations of Lands; and from time to time you
are to correct all Errors that appear to you to have been com-
mitted in the said Rentals: which Returns when enter'd you
are, with a List of all other Corrections, to deliver in to the
Clerk of the Revenue Board.
4^th You are every year to make out and deliver to the several
and respective Receivers of the Shore, a fair and correct
Debt Book for each County, leaving every other leaf blank,
which Debt Books shall contain the names of all Persons that
possess Land within the Counties for which they are respec-
tively made, also the name & Quantity of every parcel of Land,
under what Rent each Parcel is held, and what Quit Rent each
Tenant is annually to pay for his Land, whether he may hold
One or more Tracts; and the gross amount of such Books, you
are annually to deliver to His Lordship's Agent.
5^th Each Receiver is betwixt the 29^th day of September and
the 1^st day of February annually to return to you the Debt
Book he received the preceding year, together with another