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process may be suspended until His Lordship's Pleasure shall
be signified.
June 6^th 1769

Ordered, that the Clerk do make an Entry (notwithstand-
ing an order of the Board to meet as this Day annually) that
on Account of the Arrival of His Excellency Robert Eden,
Esq^r who this Day qualifies as Governor and Commander in
Chief, and no Business of moment lying before the Board,
their meeting this Day will be unnecessary.

June 19^th 1769.

The Board meet this Day in pursuance of a message from
the Governor

Present. His Excellency Robert Eden, Esq^r

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
The Hon: Walter Dulany, Esq^r
George Steuart, Esq^r

Lib. No. 86

His Excellency lays before the Board such parts of his
Instructions as relate to the management of His Lordship's
Revenue, that in Case any Clauses therein contained, or the
substance thereof may not have been issued from the Revenue
Board to the several Officers concerned in the Receipt thereof,
they may be added thereto. The Board on comparing the said
Clauses with the Instructions heretofore issued, are of opinion
that the several Officers may proceed agreeable to the Direc-
tions already furnished until His Lordship's Pleasure shall be
further signified. Copies having been transmitted to him
for his final Approbation or Disallowance of the same.

August 21^st 1769
At a meeting of the Board of Revenue. Present
His Excellency Robert Eden Esq^r
Daniel Dulany, Esq^r

The Hon^ble Walter Dulany Esq^r
George Steuart, Esq^r

& Thomas Jenings, Esq^r
The Board proceed to take into consideration an Extract of
a Letter from Benjamin Young, Esq^r Surveyor General of
the Eastern Shore, to the Hon: Walter Dulany Esq^r wherein
he sets forth, that he finds it very difficult to get proper Per-
sons to act under the late Instructions issued from the Board;
the Objections to which will more fully appear by the follow-
ing Copy of the said Extract.

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