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

Lib. No. 86

May 2^d 1772

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At a meeting of the Board of Revenue, Present
His Excell^y Robert Eden, Esq^r

The Hon^ble Benedict Calvert' Esq^r
George Steuart, Esq^r

M^r Meriwether having intimated to the Board that the
Accounts and vouchers for Business transacted by the late
John Morton Jordan Esq^r were now ready for their Inspection
& which he accordingly produces, the Board proceed to ex-
amine the Same, and find a Balance due the late Lord Pro-
prietary amounting to the Sum of £4245...10.. 6 Sterling which
M^r Meriwether, as Administrator of the Deceased has paid
to the Hon: Daniel of S^t Thomas Jenifer, Esq^r by order of this
Board and the said Accounts with a list of Debts outstanding

are this Day passed and Duplicates thereof lodged in the

Revenue Office.
The Petition of Benjamin Howard is read setting forth
that a certain John Howard his great Grandfather obtained a
Warrant out of his Lordship's Land Office, in the year 1703,
for the Quantity of 1600 Acres of Land which he put into the
Hands of the then Deputy Surveyor of Baltimore County by
which a Survey was actually made reputed to contain 640
Acres of Land but from the negligence of the said Surveyor a
Certificate thereof was never return'd altho' he was paid the
Fees, that in the year 1720, an Act passed in favour of Benj^a
Howard his Grandfather for the Quantity of about 331 Acres
of Land part of said Survey which included all the Land he
then proved Boundaries for the courses being lost and which
the Petitioner as Heir at Law now prays Patent for. Ordered.

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That upon M^r Howard's making it appear to the Judges of the
Land Office that the Caution has been paid, M^r Howard to
have a Patent for whatever Land may remain of said Survey
stil Vacant, or in case the caution shall not have been paid that
M^r Howard do pay the money for whatever Quantity may
remain p return of Certificate unpatented.
The Petition of Doctor Alexander Stenhouse is read pray-
ing a preference in the purchase of a Lot of Ground lying
within the Rescue of Baltimore Town & lately become Escheat
by the Death of a certain Eliz: Grahame.
The above Petition to be taken under Consideration on a
future Day and Doc^r Stenhouse to have Preference on his
Application.