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

Lib. No. 86

these Instructions, and if your Lordship shall ultimately ap-
prove of them, or think proper to order their being remitted
with Amendments, We humbly Submit, whether it may not be
expedient to point out the Duties, and constitute the Powers,
of this Board by a particular Commission adapted to these
Purposes, and especially with respect to the superintending
Authority Thereof
It becomes necessary in consequence of a recent very
extraordinary Occurrence, to represent to your Lordship,
that the Rev^d M^r Bennet Allen, the late Agent, was by the most
explicit terms of his Commission, required to obey, & observe
such Orders and Directions, as He should from time to time
receive from this Board, and his Duty herein was, moreover,
enforced by the Bond He passed. We therefore thought
ourselves fully authorized to call upon this Gentleman to
render an Account of the Sums He had received and remitted,
and that it was incumbent upon us, out of that Duty we owe
your Lordship, the rather to take this Step, considering the
Nature of the Agent's Office, and that He had given no
Security for his just and faithful Performance of it.
For the Steps taken by the Board on the one Hand and by
M^r Allen on the other, we beg leave to refer your Lordship to
the Copy, now also transmitted, of our order, as well as of the
Letters, Depositions and other Proceedings, on this Occasion,
without troubling your Lordship with any Comments or
Animadversions, which if confined within a small Compass,
might be imperfect, and, if expressive of our full sense, might
be too Prolix.

We have the Honour to be with the utmost Respect,
my Lord,
Your Lordship's most Obed^t Obliged &
faithful Humble Servants

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January 2^d 1769
At a Meeting of the Board of Revenue. Present
His Excellency Hor^o Sharpe Esq^r

The Hon. Daniel Dulany, Esq^r
The Hon. Walter Dulany, Esq^r
and George Steuart, Esq^r

The Board agree to meet annually on the Twenty fifth Day
of March, the first Tuesday in June and the third Tuesday in
October in order to consider and Determine such Matters as
may have occurred, in the intermediate Time, relative to the
Management of His Lordship's Revenue; as also to attend, on
notice to be given by the Clerk, at other Times in case any