Treasurer or Commissioners of our Treasury for the time being in order to his or their being fully apprized of the behaviour of the officers concerned in the management of our said Revenue.

Fifthly Our said Receiver is hereby directed & impowered to allow and pay reasonable fees to any the Officers who are or shall be aiding & assisting, or by whose means any of our said Casual Revenues shall be recovered and paid to him, & the same shall be allowed in his account by our Auditor of the Plantations or his Deputy Provided the said fees be such as our Attorney General there shall have allowed, and to that end our said Attorney General is hereby required to setle & adjust a table of fees to be paid for the purposes aforesaid, which table of fees our pleasure is shall be first approved by us & be enter'd in our said Auditor or his Deputy's Office, and to be hung up and affixed in such publick place or places as shall be thought necessary for the information of all persons concerned.

Sixthly. Our said Receiver is hereby also directed & impowered to allow and pay unto the Discoverers of any concealed rents Revenues Escheats or other rights of the Crown hereby declared and appointed to be within his receipt a reward after the rate of 5 Cent upon and out of all clear moneys after all costs and charges deducted, that shall come and be paid into the hands of our said Receiver by means of such discoverys, and we do hereby direct that the same be allowed by our said Auditor or his Deputy in the said Receivers accounts Provided the Discoverer with our said Receiver do first come to the Office of our said Auditor or his Deputy, & there enter in a book to be kept for that purpose the import of such discoverys, so as the said Auditor or his Deputy may be judges of the probability of our being advantaged by the discoverys made before we are engaged in any expence or vexatious suits about the same.

Seventhly. The proper Officers of any of the Courts of our said Island respectively are hereby directed to transmit a particular account of all fines forfeitures Amerciaments and escheats or of any other branches of our said Casual Revenue decreed & adjudged to us in any of our said Courts to our said Auditor or his Deputy in order to our said Receivers being duly charged therewith.

Eighthly. Our said Receiver is hereby directed at the end of every month to deliver into the office of our said Auditor or his Deputy a list or schedule signed by himself of all moneys or effects had & received by him within & for such month, expressing therein under distinct columns, the day when received, of whom, upon what account, and the sums, so as our Auditor or his Deputy may from time to time be apprized of our Revenues in the hands of our said Receiver, & of the ways & means by which they arise, and our said Receiver is hereby also directed at the end of every twelve months or at Michaelmas yearly to give into the Office of our said Auditor or his Deputy his account for such year; which account our said Auditor or his Deputy is to examine and pass in the form such accounts have used to be passed & that without delay, and we do hereby direct that our said Receiver shall be allowed on such his years account after the rate of six Cent for and upon all moneys actually received by him & charged in such accounts in consideration of his service pains & charges in executing the said Office of Receiver, and we do hereby also direct that our said Auditor for his services pains & charges in examining and passing the said accounts & otherwise employing his care about recovering & managing the said revenues shall have and receive an allowance after the rate of five Cent upon all moneys actually received as aforesaid.

Lastly. Our pleasure is that our Orders rules and

instructions be entered in all Courts Offices and places in our said Island where or before whom any our Revenues hereby meant to be taken in charge by our said Receiver shall arise or happen, so as all our Officers and Ministers concerned without being particularly named may be acquainted therewith, and take notice of our pleasure, and conform themselves severally thereunto in all other things accordingly. Given at Court at Kensington the 12th day of September 1721 in the 8th year of our Reign

By his Majestys Command

R WALPOLE

GEO BAILLIE

R EDGCUMBE

(No 2) Orders, Rules and Instructions to be observed by the Receivers General of the several Colonys and Provinces in North America

1st You are in Conjunction with the Deputy Auditor for the time being, to use your utmost endeavours to form an exact and compleat Rent Roll of his Majesty's Quit rents, and as the same cannot be done without extraordinary Trouble and Expence in taking Extracts from Records in Publick Offices and County Courts, of all Grants and mesne Conveyances of Lands heretofore Granted and Conveyed, proper Consideration shall be had for such Service, as has been done in such Cases in other Colonies.

2 The better to enable you to carry on the Service relative to his Majesty's Lands, you are required personally or by your Deputies at all times to attend the Land Office on Granting of Lands.

3. You are every six months or oftener to call upon the proper Officers of the Courts of Justice for exact

Dockets of all ffines and fforfeitures imposed by such Courts, and to call upon the Sheriffs and proper Officers for the money levied by them accordingly, in all which Cases the Judges of the respective Courts are to interpose their Authority for the Service of the

revenue.

4th You are to take the same Measures with regard to the Courts of Admiralty in Cases of Seizures and Condemnations, where the Forfeiture is to the Crown, and to take Care that the same be accordingly paid over to you, and properly accounted for in the Auditors Office.

5th That no undue preference may be given by you in payment of the Officer's Salaries, you are to take care to pay all Salaries in due proportion to the money in your Hands, and the same rule to be observed in payment of their Arrears And where payments of Quit rents cannot be made in Gold or Silver rated according to the 6th of Queen Ann In receiving Quit rents and the Kings dues in paper money in place of Gold and Silver. You are at all times to keep up to the Valuation of Gold and Silver as fixed by the said Act of Parliament receiving and paying in Paper money what is bona fide in all payments adequate to so much Gold and Silver.

6th Whereas it is absolutely necessary for his Majesty's Service, that you as well as the Deputy Auditor, be authorized to act as Justices of the Peace throughout the Province you are therefore to apply to the Governor to nominate you accordingly Justice of the Quorum, in Case you are not already so nominated.

7th And, for the better Collecting his Majesty's rents, you are to know that you may distrain not only upon the particular Lands, for which the Quit rents are due, but also upon all other Lands of the Kings Debtor within the Province whether the same are held immediately under the King's Grant or otherwise.

8th Where no distress is to be found, and the Tenant in Arrear lives out of the Province, the Lands themselves, or any other Effects within the Province, are liable to be taken in Execution for the Debt-The Tenant in Arrear for Rent Living within the Province, his person, as well as Lands become liable by way of debt.

9th Whereas for want of a Court of Exchequer in North Carolina, the usual and legal process at Common Law cannot Issue in Cases of Intrusion on his Majesty's Lands, Concealment of rents, Escheats, and many other Cases relative to his Majesty's prerogative Rights and Revenues, You are therefore in all such Cases to apply to his Majesty's Attorney General for Redress, through the Jurisdiction incident to the Court of Chancery in such Cases by way of Information or Bill, in his Majesty's behalf as his Attorney General shall, according to the nature of the Case Advise.

10th And altho' it be understood that the said casual revenue cannot in all Cases be described by particular denominations, yet it is ordered and directed, that all Monies, Revenues or Effects under the following denominations shall be Esteemed and taken as such His Majesty's Casual Revenues, and received and accounted for by the said Receiver General thereof for the time being, and by no other person or persons whatsoever That is to say, All Fines, Forfeitures, Amerciaments, Penalties, Escheats and Costs of Suit happening or arising in any of the Courts of Judicature whatsoever in the said province, or before any of the civil Magistrates there, and Estreated, Certified, or sent into the Courts, or any of them, to be levied and recovered for his Majesty's Use, also, the monies or effects, arising for his Majesty's part or share in uncustomed or prohibited Goods seized and condemned or by the Seizures and Sales of Ships and Vessells condemned and for