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

Lib. No. 86

marks in their power to make as to Errors or Defects, Report
the Alienations & also return a fair and distinct Debt Book at
the end of three years. The Board are of opinion that a
strict Compliance with the above will be sufficient; but as to
their Objecting to giving Receipts agreeable to the 8^th Art:
the Board are of opinion they are absolutely necessary &
easily executed by stating a fair Account of every separate
Tract of Land held by the Tenant and leaving sufficient Blank
for half yearly Receipts, which will answer the end until
alienations shall happen by Purchase or Sale, as in such Case
a new Account must be Stated: That as to the objection con-
cerning Land lying on and near the Line that divides this
Province and Pennsylvania, The Farmer is only required to
use his utmost endeavours to Act in Conformity therewith,
of all which the Clerk is ordered to give the above Gentlemen
notice.
His Excellency the Governor informs the Board, that
George Lee Esq^r resigns his Office of Farmer of the Quit
Rents in Charles & S^t Mary's Counties and that Joseph Mar-
berry will accept the Office in Charles County and Jesse Lock
in St. Mary's County provided the latter may only be liable
for old Rents on all that Tract of Land granted by the Name
of S^t Clement's Manor, as the Tenants refuse payment of
new Rents, tho' charged on the Debt Book, alledging their
Lands were purchased from Thomas Gerrard to whom the
original Grant was made under old Rents.
Ordered that the Clerk do search the offices for the Date of
the original Grant, the Grant on the Resurvey & the Time the
Conveyances were made, in order to shew whether old or new
Rents ought to be paid.
The Board adjourn 'til Monday the 26^th day of March next.

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Monday March 5^th 1770
The Board meet this Day in consequence of an Application
made by Daniel of S^t Thomas Jenifer, Esq^r late Agent and
Receiver General.
Present. His Exccll^y Robert Eden, Esq^r
Daniel Dulany, Esq^r
The Hon George Steuart, Esq^r

Thomas Jenings, Esq^r

M^r Jenifer attends the Board and lays before them his Ac-
counts as Agent and Receiver General from the Time he
was Commissioned until he was Superseded in that Office.