Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 439

2^d You are also to collect and receive the Fourteen Pence
p^r Ton payable to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
on all foreign Ships or Vessels that shall Enter and Clear out
of your Office, and to take care that the Owners or Masters
do pay the said Duty according to the Vessel's real Burthen
and Measure, and not according to the Register.
3^d You are on or before the first day of November annually
to return to the Revenue Board a List or Account on Oath of
all Vessels liable to pay the aforesaid Duties, or either of
them, that shall have Cleared out at your Office during the
preceeding year ending the 29^th of September.
4^th You are also before the first day of November annually
to render a similar account to His Lordship's Agent and to
pay him the amount of said Duties so by you received retain-
ing thereout for your Trouble on Receiving a Commission of
Two per Cent.

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5^th You are not to receive any Bills of Exchange for said
Duties drawn at a longer Sight than Forty Days at most,
nor on any Port except London, where the Vessel shall belong
to or Clear for that Port: Where the Vessel does not belong
to, and is not bound for London, you may, if you cannot
prevail on the Master or Owner to pay London Bills; take
Bills drawn on Merchants residing in other Ports of England,
but in no Case to take a Bill on Scotland, if you can avoid it,
and unless the Vessel belongs to, and is actually bound to
Scotland.

Revenue Board Decem^r 7^th 1768
My Lord,

In obedience to your Lordship's pleasure, We have taken
into our most mature Consideration by what means each
Branch of your Lordship's Revenue may, with the greatest
Exactness and Convenience, be secured, collected & paid, and
have particularly had it in our View to establish such checques
as may, from time to time, discover the Persons, who shall be
liable, and accountable for every part of your Lordship's
Revenues, and also may afford a speedy and precise notice of
Defaults, which may require coercive Measures.
In Pursuance of our Duty we have drawn out Instructions
to regulate the Conduct of the several Officers immediately
concerned in the respective Branches of the Revenue, and also
to direct the Service of others, who in their Department, may
be assistant in the forming of the proper Checques. A Copy
of these various Instructions which constitute our Plan, We
have, now, the Honour of transmitting for your Lordship's

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Consideration, until controuled by an ulteriour Signification
of your Lordship's pleasure, the Revenue will be regulated by

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