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the Rent Roll Keeper to whom the same will be returned to
make the Rent Roll of County compleat and perfect.
3^d You shall on the 25^th day of July next, and in every
ensuing year, during this your Commission, pay unto His
Lordship's Receiver General for the time being at his dwelling
House one third part of the gross Amount of the Quit Rents
which shall appear by the year's Debt Book to be due in the

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County of in Sterling Money or good Bills of Exchange
payable in London at, or under, Forty Days Sight, or in
foreign whole Gold at Three pounds Seventeen Shillings and
Six pence the ounce and mill'd Spanish Dollars at Four Shil-
lings and Six Pence each, or at such other Rates as the Officers
of the Revenue Board shall hereafter, at the beginning of each
year's Collection direct the same to be taken and received by
you from His Lordship's Tenants.
4^th You shall on or before the first day of February in every
year, during this your Commission make a full and compleat
Settlement with the Rent Roll Keeper of the Shore, and
you are besides the Debt Book delivered you for the year's
Collection to produce to him a fair one, containing all your
Remarks, as to any Defects or Errors of the former, with the
addition of all such Tracts or parcels of Land as shall be by
you discovered and not before charged :
To this Debt Book when delivered unto the Rent Roll Keeper
for the time being, you are required to make the following
Probate, to be certified by a Magistrate on the back thereof
Viz:

On the day of came and made Oath on the
Holy Evangels, that the foregoing Debt Book, is to the
best of his Knowledge just and true; and that neither He nor
any Person by him employed, hath to his Knowledge or Belief,
received Quit Rents for any Lands that are not contained in
the said Debt Book, nor other Rents than are therein Charged,
and that He knows of no Tracts or Parcells of Land in said
County Patented, Improved, or Occupied beside those which
are entered in the said Debt Book, and that the only Persons
by him employed, to assist in collecting the Quit Rents in the
said County were A. B. &c. which Assistants have severally
taken a similar Oath.

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5^th When the Debt Books shall have been compared, ex-
amined and adjusted, and the allowances to be made you
settled, and the Rent Roll Keeper shall have drawn up and
Stated an Account, Debiting you with the Gross Amount of
said Debt Books and Crediting you for every Allowance, Two
fair Draughts thereof are required to be prepared and sign'd
by yourself as well as the Rent Roll Keeper, one of which you

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