Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 451

Office for that Purpose, and he must be Satisfied for his
Trouble out of M^r Meriwether's Wages: Part of whose
Business it was to Post and Balance the whole to the Time
of his dismission & whom I repeatedly solicited to do so in
order to my sending in a general Account long since. I am
Sir Your Excellency's most Obedient
humble Servant
B. Allen

The Board adjourns til Friday the 26^th Instant.

Lib. No. 86

Copy of a Letter from the Rev^d M^r Bennet Allen to the
Governor.

Sir,
I take the liberty of informing your Excellency, that an
Engagement of a month's standing to meet some Gentlemen
from a distant Province, obliges me to go to Baltimore Town,
and I shall return time enough before the Court is over, to
know the determination relative to the Bond. I am
Sir, Your Excellency's most Obedient
Hble Servant
Monday May 15^th 1769. B. Allen

Fryday May 26^th 1769
The Board met according to adjournment. Present
His Excellency Hor^o Sharpe, Esq^r

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

The Clerk lays before the Board a Letter from Thomas
Jones, Farmer of the Quit Rents in Baltimore County, desir-
ing that he may have it in his option to take or refuse Bills
of Exchange in payment. The Board are of opinion, that as
the receipt of good Bills of Exchange will be doing justice to
His Lordship & may be for the ease of the Tenants, they
ought not be refused by the Farmers in discharge of Quit
Rents.
The Petition of Thomas Wright of Queen Ann's County is
read, praying leave to add, on a Resurvey, a piece of vacant
Land lying within three Miles of His Lordship's Manor in
said County. Ordered, that the Surveyor do run out the said

p. 88

Vacancy and make a Return thereof to this Board, specifying
the number of Acres, nature of the soil &c. and whether the
same is entirely surrounded by patented Tracts, of which the
Clerk to give him Notice.

p. 89