authorities hereby granted, we do further authorize him to empower, constitute and appoint under him, such and so many officers and deputies as shall be requisite, and has been usual heretofore in like cases, hereby ordering and requiring him the said Charles Carroll to remit unto us, for our proper use, by the first and safest opportunities and conveyancies, all such moneys, effects and bills of exchange, as shall arise, grow due, and be received by him and his deputies or under officers, on all or any the aforesaid branches of our revenue, and upon receipt of any money, bills of exchange, or other effects, sufficient discharges and acquitances, to give and sign to the person or persons concerned or owing such monies, effects and bills of exchange, and generally to act, do, and perform, fulfill and accomplish all and every other act and acts, thing and things, requisite and necessary for the due execution, performance and justly discharging the several respective offices, powers and authorities hereby given and granted him, or intended to be given and granted him.     And we do hereby ratify, confirm and hold for good, effectual and valid, whatsoever the said Charles Carroll shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises, notwithstanding any insufficiency or defect in the words, expressions, clauses or sentences of this our commission, and although every particular matter strictly requisite be not therein particularly mentioned and expressed. And we do further hereby for a compensation, salary and encouragement to the said Charles Carroll, for the punctual, sincere and faithful performance of the powers and authorities hereby granted him, and in consideration of the pains, labour and trouble he shall take in the due execution thereof, authorize, direct and empower him to take, receive, and retain, to and for his own use out of all such monies, tobaccos, or other effects, as shall be received on any of the accounts aforesaid (except for the duties arising by the exportation of tobacco, being two shillings and nine pence per hogshead, and the duties arising per the tunnage on ships, being fourteen pence per tun) the sum of ten pounds in the hundred, and so pro rato, for a greater or lesser quantity, (over and above the salaries so as aforesaid to be allowed his officers) and for receiving and remitting the said two and nine pence per hogshead, and fourteen pence per tun, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling yearly. And we do hereby revoke, annul, and make void, all former and other commissions, powers and authorities, touching the premises, by us, or our authorities, to any person or persons heretofore granted, ratifying and confirming all whatsoever has been lawfully done by the said Charles Carroll, by virtue of my late lord Benedict's letter to him, as far as in us lies; as also D d