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

Lib. No. 86

are to take and produce with your Debt Books on a Settlement
with the Receiver General.

6^th You are immediately after Settlement with the Rent
Roll Keeper to produce to His Lordship's Receiver General,
the Debt Book that shall have been laid before, and examined
by the Rent Roll Keeper, and also the State of the Account by
the said Rent Roll Keeper and you signed and to pay to him
the whole amount of the Quit Rents due to His Lordship in
county except such Sum, or Sums of Money as shall have
been before by you paid to him, the said Receiver General
allowing you at the rate of per Cent Commission on the
whole Sum by you paid for the year's Collection.
7^th You are to be very punctual in settling with the Rent
Roll Keeper and in making due Payments to His Lord-
ship's Receiver General, at the respective times herein before
directed.
8^th You are to mention in the Receipts by you given for
Rent, the Sum, time when due, the quantity of Land and the
name thereof, taking care that arrears of Rent be first ac-
counted for and discharged
9^th You are in your Remarks to note down where the Ten-
ant in charge holds not in his own Right, and what Lands are
thought or reported to be Escheat.
10^th Whereas there may be Tracts or Parcels of Land,
charged in the Debt Book that are cut off by the divisional
Lines now run between this Province and the Province of

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Pennsylvania for which you shall be allowed upon your mak-
ing Oath, that you have used your best endeavours to get
information where such Lands lie, and that you believe they
do really lie without the Limits of this Province, as described
by the boundary Lines lately run.
11^th And whereas Persons living near the boundary Lines
may in order to evade paying the Quit Rents due thereon,
pretend that part of the Tracts or parcels of Land, by them
respectively held, lie without such Lines (that is in Pennsyl-
vania or the three Lower Counties) you are nevertheless to
demand the whole Quit Rent for such Lands; but at the same
time if you have reason to believe, that the Line really passes
thro' such Land, you are to receive such part of the Rent, as
the Tenant shall be willing to pay, and give him a Receipt for
such part so by you received specifying the number of Acres
he admits to be in this Province, and noting also in such
Receipt that he engages to pay for the Residue of the Tract

or such other Part thereof as may on its being Surveyed, be

found also to be within this Province: you are to obtain, also