Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 447

The Board, finding that no Person of Property will Farm
the Quit Rents of Baltimore County any longer on the same
Terms as heretofore, determine to give 15 p Cent on the
Collection thereof and order the Clerk to write M^r Thomas
Jones, late Farmer, to that Effect.

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The Board, from intimation given Them, having reason to
believe that M^r William Smith, Steward of His Lordship's
Manors and Reserve in Baltimore County, has not faithfully
discharged his Duty, in that Office: It is the Opinion of the
Board, that he ought to be called upon to come down & answer
such objections as shall be then made to his Conduct, of which
the Clerk is ordered to give him Notice.
The Clerk delivers to the Board, the Petition of Thomas
Pearson for a Lease on two small parcels of Land part of the
Reserve in Baltimore County deserted by the former Tenants,
which is Granted for the remainder of the Term on his paying
up the remainder of the back Rents to this Time.
The Small Pox being in M^r Jones' Family at Baltimore
Town. Ordered, That Alexander Lawson Esq^r Clerk of
Baltimore County, do Witness his signing a Receipt on the
Duplicate of his Commission as Farmer of said County.
The Board adjourn to Thursday the 11^th of May next.

May 11^th 1769.
The Board met according to adjournment.
Present. His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r

The Hon^ble Daniel Dulany, Esq^r
The Hon^ble Walter Dulany, Esq^r

The Petition of John Tillotson, praying leave on a Resur-

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vey, to include a small Vacancy lying within three Miles of His
Lordship's Manor in Queen Ann's County, is read, as also a
Certificate from Jonathan Hall, late Surveyor of said County,
by which it appears that the Vacancy prayed for, contains
only Nineteen Acres, entirely surrounded by ancient Tracts,
and the Land being of a very indifferent Quality, the said
Petition is Granted.
The Governor lays before the Board a Letter which his
Excellency received, the 10^th Instant, from The Rev^d M^r Ben-
net Allen of which the following is a Copy.

Sir,
If anything could astonish me that happens to me in this
Country, it would be the arrest I was put under on Wednesday
last, at the Horse Race, in the face of the whole Province
at the Suit of the Lord Proprietary. And tho' I am far from

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