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

Lib. No. 86

ence in a Patent which shall be deemed a part of Jarrett's
Purchase & he only to have a Grant for the Residue.

p. 120

The Clerk lays before the Board a memorandum of sundry
Impositions which appear to have been long practised by
Persons taking up Lands by vertue of Warrants of Resurvey
when composed of sundry original Tracts, part of which they
have been before allowed on compounding with the Agent
when Resurveyed the one into the other & also by different
Names. The Hon^ble George Steuart Esq^r undertakes to com-
pare them with the Records in the Land Office & make Report
thereon, in order that proper measures may be taken to pre-
vent the like Frauds in future.
It appearing that the Rentals of the Western Shore are
replete with Errors having been kept in a confused State for
many years and part of them transcribed by the late Rent
Roll Keeper without correcting the same, The Board are
informed thereof & order that they be, for the present rectified
as often as they shall occur, until a method can be adopted
whereby the present Rent Roll Keeper and Farmers of Quit
Rents may be enabled to form them on a more regular Plan.
The Board adjourn to the 26^th Day of March next.

March 26^th 1774.
At a Meeting of the Board of Revenue. Present.

The Hon: Benedict Calvert, Esq^r
The Hon: Daniel Dulany, Esq^r
The Hon^ble George Steuart, Esq^r

The Business having been previously intimated to His Ex-
cellency the Governor, who by reason of his Indisposition
could not attend Personally. The Board resume the Con-
sideration of the Propriety or Impropriety of taking off the
Reserve on all Lands lying within this Province to the west-
ward of Fort Cumberland, except such Lands as have been
actually surveyed and Certificates thereof returned to this
Office for the use of the Lord Proprietary, and after mature
deliberation thereon unanimously came to the following De-
termination Viz.

p. 121

Whereas it appears to this Board, that People have been
restrained from making Surveys and obtaining Grants of
Lands to the Westward of Fort Cumberland, in this Province,
in consequence of an Instruction issued by the late Governor,
Col^o Sharpe, to the Judges of the Land Office, bearing Date
the 10^th Day of April 1764 in the following Words :