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

Lib. No. 86

Ordered: That the Clerk do give notice to William
Thomas, Esq^r Rent Roll Keeper of the Eastern Shore and
Col^o Joseph Nicholson, late Farmer of Kent County to attend
this Board on the Instant, that the Complaint of the
latter may be heard respecting a failure of Duty in the former
in not furnishing correct Debt Books each year for said
County and which the Farmer alledges to be the Reason of
his not having as yet settled an Account with the Rent Roll
Keeper for the preceding year ending the 29^th of September.
The Petition of Christopher and Catharine Reaver is read &
will be Considered at a future Day.
The Board adjourn 'til Monday the 15^th Instant.

May 15^th 1769
The Board met according to adjournment.
Present. His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq^r

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
The Hon^ble Walter Dulany Esq^r
George Steuart, Esq^r

In pursuance of an Order of the Board, to the Rev^d M^r
Allen, at their last meeting the Clerk received on Saturday

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last a Note from that Gentleman together with a Letter di-
rected to His Excellency the Governor the Contents of both
which are read and ordered to be entered Viz.

M^r Clapham
Please to convey to the Governor this Letter which is an
answers to yours of the 11^th ult. from
May 13^h 1769. yours &c. B.Allen

May 13^th 1769
Sir.

By an order of the Board of Revenue dated March 25^th and
delivered to me this Day, I find they determine my Accounts
sent in the 29^th of March to be very irregularly stated, and
refer me for Information to M^r John Clapham their Clerk.
M^r Meriwether, my late Clerk, left my Books unsettled, upon
my refusal to comply with an extortionate Demand of 20
Guineas for the Settlement over and above his Wages at the
rate of £100. sterling p Ann: I have applied to many Persons
to compleat the Settlement but have not been able to procure
one who understands the method.
If M^r Clapham will undertake to Settle the Books upon the
Plan they were begun (as I mean nothing but the Justest
Account with Lord Baltimore) he may have free access to my