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missioners of My Treasury " with allowances in kind to each. A
similar appointment issued on November 14, 1646, to Governor
Leonard Calvert and Father Lewger, but Calvert died the follow-
ing June, and Lewger returned to England in 1648. Our last
reference to such Commissioners is in an instruction to Governor
William Stone, dated August 6, 1650, just before the Crom-
wellian disturbances. ¹³

From the fall of 1661 to the spring of 1684, save for a brief
interval, Charles Calvert, who in 1675/6 became the third Lord
Baltimore, was himself both Governor and Receiver General.
On his final departure from the province he appointed, May 5,
1684, a Land Council consisting of the newly appointed Agent,
Colonel Henry Darnall, the Joint Secretaries, and Colonel Wil-
liam Digges. This body ceased to act in the spring of 1689, at
the outbreak of the Protestant Revolution, and we shall see that
its powers ultimately devolved upon the Agent. ¹⁴

Similarly, toward the close of the second proprietary period,
this officer was made subordinate to a Board of Revenue appointed
February 21, 1766, and organized in 1768. It consisted of the
Governor (and Chancellor), Deputy Secretary, Commissary Gen-
eral, and Judges of the Land Office, and it now audited the Agent's
accounts and absorbed his supervisory powers. In its first year
the board actually obtained dismissal of one Agent and the
appointment of another. ¹⁵

Major Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, the last such officer,
became Receiver General for a second time on September 9,
1771, and apparently turned in his last account late in 1774.
Next year he was chosen president of the Council of Safety. The
proprietary revenue system now collapsed. A law of May, 1780,
abolished quit-rents, as of July 4, 1776, and in February, 1781, all
proprietary lands were confiscated. Under an act of January,
1782, the Treasurer of the Western Shore assumed those ter-
ritorial functions earlier done by the Agent: he now received
money for vacant lands and issued orders to the Land Office for
warrants of survey.

¹³ Ibid., HI, 140-143, 172-173; I, 319.

¹⁴ Kilty, op. cit., 111-17; Provincial Court Record, liber WRC, No. I, folio 761
(Land Office).

¹⁵ The journal of this Board of Revenue may be found in Archives, XXXII,
391-489. John Clapham, their clerk, appointed April 5, 1768, had a salary of £ 80
sterling a year (Ibid., XXXII, 399). The members as such, had no remuneration.