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

Lib. No. 86

Sundry Persons having preferred Petitions for Leases on
his Lordship's Reserve in Baltimore County, the same are
postponed until his Lordship's Pleasure shall be signified in
what manner the said Reserve is to be disposed of.
A Petition from Christ⁰ & Catharine Reaver is read & the
Prayer therein Granted.
The Board adjourn 'til Wednesday the 15^th of Novem^r 12
o'Clock.

Thursday Novem^r 15^th 1769

The meeting of the Board of Revenue, which was to have
been this Day pursuant to Adjournment, is, on Account of
the meeting of the General Assembly, by the Advice of His
Excellency the Governor, further adjourned until the II^th
Day of December next.

p. 98

Monday Decem^r 11^th 1769.
The Board meet according to Adjournment. Present.
His Excellency Robert Eden, Esq^r

Daniel Dulany
Walter Dulany

The Hon^ble Ben^t Calvert Esq^rs
George Steuart

&
Thomas Jenings

M^r Thomas Jones, Farmer of the Quit Rents in Baltimore
County, represents to the Board, that, John Morton Jordan
Esq^r his Lordship's Agent and Receiver General, refuses to
accept of any Bill or Bills of Exchange, in payment of Quit
Rents, unless the same shall be endorsed by the Farmers re-
spectively; and M^r Jordan acquaints the Board, that, whatever
may have been the usual Custom with former Agents, he
cannot accept them on any other Terms, and shall always pass
Receipts, conditionally, to be a discharge in case the said Bills
of Exchange shall be duely honoured and paid.
The Board are of Opinion, that it is the Duty of the
Farmers of his Lordship's Quit Rents to endorse all Bills of
Exchange they may tender to his Lordship's Agent in pay-
ment for the same, and therefore are not to accept of any Bill
or Bills that may, immediately, be made payable to the Lord
Proprietor, of which the Clerk to give them Notice.
M^r Meriwether represents to the Board, that notwithstand-
ing an Order given him on the late Agent, by the Clerk,
pursuant to the Directions of the Board; he has not received