Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 459

the Money due him for importing Books, into which the
Rentals of the Western Shore are to be transcribed.

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Ordered, That the Clerk do take back his former Order,
and give M^r Meriwether another, on the present Agent, to
reimburse him the Amount of his Account for said Books.
John Morton Jordan Esq^r as Owner of the Manor of Cono-
cochegue, applies to the Board for all Counterparts of Leases
and other Papers relative to said Manor, now lodged in the
Revenue Office.
Ordered that on the late Agent's giving a Certificate to the
Clerk of this Board, that the Rents have been duly paid until
his Lordship divested himself of his Property in said Manor
the Clerk may deliver the Leases &c. to M^r Jordan.
Also ordered. That the Clerk do transmit to James Everitt,
present Steward of the Manors and Reserve in Baltimore
County, an Order on William Smith, late Steward, for all the
Papers &c in his Hands relative to said Manor & Reserve.
His Excellency the Governor informs the Board, that he
has sundry Papers sealed up, and left in his Care by the Rev^d
M^r Bennett Allen, relative to his Agency, which he shall de-
liver up so soon as M^r Jordan shall obtain an Order from M^r
Allen for that Purpose.
The Board adjourn 'til Wednesday the 2 I^st Feb^y next.

Wednesday February 21^st 1770.
At a meeting of the Board of Revenue. Present.
His Excellency Robert Eden, Esq^r

Ben^t Calvert, Esq^r
Daniel Dulany, Esq^r
Walter Dulany Esq^r &
George Steuart, Esq^r

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The Clerk lays before the Board a Letter from M^r Ralph
Forster, representing that he endorsed a Bill of Exchange for
£1 17.. 6.. 6 Sterling, drawn by John Harrison on John Day,
which Bill was paid to his Lordship's Commissioners on Ac-
count of the Sale of Manor Lands, that by the Failure of the
said John Day the Bill was protested, but kept in England
beyond the usual Time and contrary to the common course
of Business, by which neglect he was deprived of the Advan-
tage of securing himself by Attachment which he could other-
ways have done, that he had got what Security he could from
the nature of the Case and therefore could not think himself
lyable in case it should prove insufficient, and refers the Board
to M^r Daniel Dulany for further Information with respect to
the nature of the Security; with which the Board are satisfied,

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