Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 395

Given under my hand and Lesser Seal at Arms at London,
this Eighth Day of October in the Eleventh year of my Domin-
ion in and over Our said Province and in the year of Our
Lord 1761.
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By his Lordship's Command
Cecil^s Calvert, Sec^y

Lib. No. 86

Further Instructions for Ordering the future Management
and Collection of the Revenues of my said Province.
By certain Instructions to you the said Horatio Sharpe and
M^r Lloyd of the 8^th of October 1761, already referred to, I
gave some Orders and Directions in this matter. Whether
any, and what, measures have been taken to Execute the
same, I am as yet to Learn. But as my Principal reliance is
on your disinterestedness, Zeal and Attachment to my Service,
I do therefore revoke so much of the said Orders and Instruc-
tions, as Delegates any part of the Execution of them to M^r
Lloyd, requesting you to take them into your Consideration,
not as an Absolute Invariable rule for your Government, but
as Suggesting some wholesome Regulations which may Con-
stitute part of a more general and perfect system, in forming
which you will raise what Superstructure your own Ex-
perience shall suggest.
As the first step you will agree with me, in the necessity of
framing a compleat Rent roll of my Revenue, in its distinct
Branches, The Discharge cannot be Comprehended without a
previous Insight into the Charge, nor will the Agent's Ac-
counts be ever rendered Intelligible unless accompanied with
those of his Subalterns to checque & support them.
My Commission has given you Access to every Office and
the Controul over every Officer, Let me be furnished from
thence with an exact detail of every head of my Revenue
whether Chief Rents, Quit Rents, Fines, Alienation Fines,
Escheats &c &c. as it stands in Charge to every Receiver; If
verified upon Oath from the different Offices these Accounts
will be the more Agreeable.
As these Accounts will necessarily fluctuate I think the
same Satisfaction shou'd be repeated every year as the proper
Key to the Agent's General Account.

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There are various heads of Commission in the present Chief
Agent's Accounts which I do not well understand; It shou'd
seem, as if such Commission was in many Instances taken
over & over again, upon the same Articles, and that as well
upon Money received as upon what is not received. Some
Explanation upon this head wou'd be proper; and let me see

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