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

Lib. No. 86

and therefore are unanimously of opinion: That on M^r Fors-
ter's applying that Security to the Payment of the Protest he
ought to be discharged therefrom.
The Clerk also lays before the Board a Letter from M^r
George Scott, Farmer of the Quit Rents in Frederick County
which is as follows.
I desire you will lay before his Excellency and the Hon^ble
Board of Revenue the inclosed List of Quit Rents due in
Frederick County last Michaelmas, the sum at present is very
considerable and is increasing every year and unless some
Effectual method is fallen on to compel Payment out of the
Land, there is no knowing to what lengths the Rents may go.
The Accounts shall be particularly made out when required,
that the Attorney General may proceed against the Lands, by
every legal measure; and I beg leave to say something of this
kind seems absolutely necessary, for it is impossible, as Things

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stand at present, to collect the Rents of that County by Five
Hundred Pounds p annum let any step be taken by the Col-
lector that he possibly can. But if the Tenants find the
Board does interest itself, in the Affair and is determined that
his Lordship's Rent be duely and regularly Collected it is to be
hoped they will be more punctual in their Payments, to prevent
Trouble & Expence to themselves. I wait the Hon^ble Board's
determination in the matter and at the same time hope they
will please to order what is to be done with regard to those
Tracts of Land that are Cut by the Pensylvania Line. I am
&c.

p. S. Perhaps a sharp Letter from you
by order of the Board to those Gent"
marked V may do the Business.

Ordered, that the Clerk do deliver the foregoing Letter to
his Lordship's Attorney General with the List of Defaulters
in Payment and the sums due, that he may take the necessary
Steps to compel payment.
M^r William Thomas represents, by Letter to the Board, that
several of the Farmers on the Eastern Shore have not as yet
settled their Accounts for the year 1769. Ordered that the
Clerk by Letter inform such delinquent Farmers, that unless
they comply with their Instructions by making an immediate
Settlement, their office Bonds will be put in Suit.
John Morton Jordan, Esq. attends the Board, and informs,
that M^r Theophilus Hanson, Surveyor of Charles County,
has returned Certificates of Surveys made by him lying and
being within three Miles of his Lordship's manors. Ordered