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

Lib. No. 86

Lastly. You are to return all Books and Papers relative
to His Lordship's Affairs when called upon for the same by
the Board of Revenue.

Instructions to be observed by His Lordship's Receiver
in County dated this day of To
of County
1^st You are to collect and Receive all the Quit Rents which
have become due to the Lord Proprietary from the day
of last past, and which shall hereafter become due to
His Lordship until the day of which shall be in the
year of our Lord within the county of and
shall be answerable for and chargeable with, the whole amount
of the Quit Rents, in the said County of and you shall
use all Legal ways and means whatsoever, for the recovery
thereof, as fully and amply as any Bailiff, Receiver, or other
Officer, may lawfully take, or pursue for the Purpose afore-
said; and in His Lordship's name, or your own, to sue, im-
plead or distrain, as the Case may require, for any Rents so
due, or to become due, in the said County. You are forthwith
to apply to Rent Roll Keeper of the Shore and
require of him a Debt Book for county, the said Debt
Book to contain the names of all Persons that possess Land

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within the said County, also the name and quantity of every
parcel of Land, and also to shew 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, such
Rents being payable and to be by you Collected at the Two
most usual Feasts in the year, Viz. Lady-day and Michaelmas
by even and equal Portions.
2^d In the Debt Book to be delivered to you, as aforesaid,
every second Leaf to be left blank, and you are thereon to
Enter or note every Alienation, by Sale, Descent, Devise or
otherwise, of any Land in said County, that shall or may
happen, after such Debt Book shall be delivered to you, or that
hath or may have before happened but not have come to
the Knowledge of the Rent Roll Keeper. You are also to
note on such blank Leaves all such Remarks and Discoveries
as you may have an opportunity of making, with regard to
Errors or Defects in the said Debt Book, and if you shall
discover that any Lands lying within county are not truly
charged in the Debt Book, you are to enter them on one of
the blank Leaves, and immediately to demand from the Pos-
sessor, the Arrears of Rent that may be due, you are to con-
sider the making Enquiries in order to discover Lands so
circumstanced as an essential part of your Duty, and that
your Remarks so to be Entered in the blank Leaves, will enable