of escheats and
rights of land. His salary is six per cent of all the public money. The
present auditor is John Grimes, esq.

The receiver general is to sell the public tobacco, collect and receive
the money, make the account thereof, and pay it out again by the king's
order. His salary is also six per cent. The present receiver general is
James Roscow, esq.

The secretary's business is to keep the public records of the country,
and to take care that they be regularly and fairly made up, viz: all
judgments of the general court, as likewise all deeds, and other
writings there proved; and farther, to issue all writs, both ministerial
and judicial, relating thereto. To make out and record all patents for
land, and to take the return of all inquests of escheats.

In his office is kept a register of all commissions of administration,
and probates of wills granted throughout the colony; as also of all
births, burials, marriages, and persons that go out of the country, of
all houses of public entertainment, and of all public officers in the
country, and of many other things proper to be kept in so general an
office.

From this office are likewise issued all writs for choosing of
burgesses, and in it are filed authentic copies of all proclamations.

The present secretary is Thomas Ficket, esq.

The secretary's income arises from fees for all business done in his
office, which come (_communibus annis_) to about seventy thousand pounds
tobacco per annum, out of which he pays twelve thousand five hundred,
and cask, to the clerks. His other perquisites proceed out of the
acknowledgments paid him annually by the county clerks, and are besides
about forty thousand pounds of tobacco and cask.

Sec. 9. There are two other general officers in the country who do not
receive their commission and authority immediately from the crown, and
those are: 1. The ecclesiastical commissary, viz: the Rev. James Blair,
authorized by the right reverend father in God, the lord bishop of
London, ordinary of all the plantations. 2. The country's treasurer,
viz: the Hon. Peter Beverley, esq., authorized by the general assembly.

The commissary's business is to make visitations of churches and have
the inspection of the clergy. He is allowed one hundred pounds per annum
out of the quitrents.

The treasurer's business is to receive the money from the several
collectors, and to make up the accounts of the duties raised by some
late acts of assembl