a salary of all public tobacco, which is constantly put
into the sheriff's hands, to be collected and put into hundreds,
convenient for the market. He has likewise several other advantages,
which make his place very profitable.

The profits of the surveyors of land are according to the trouble they
take. Their fees being proportioned to the surveys they make.

The coroner is a commissioner officer also, but his profits are not
worth naming, though he has large fees allowed him when he does any
business. There are two or more of them appointed in each parish, as
occasion requires; but in the vacancy or absence of any, upon an
exigency, the next justice of peace does the business and receives the
fee, which is one hundred and thirty-three pounds of tobacco for an
inquest on a dead corpse, any other business seldom falling in his way.

Sec. 11. There are other ministerial officers that have no commission;
which are, surveyors of the highways, constables and headboroughs. These
are appointed, relieved and altered annually by the county courts, as
they see occasion; and such bounds are given them as those courts think
most convenient.

CHAPTER IV.

OF THE STANDING REVENUES, OR PUBLIC FUNDS IN VIRGINIA.

Sec. 12. There are five sorts of standing public revenues in that country,
viz: 1. A rent reserved by the crown upon all the lands granted by
patent. 2. A revenue granted to his majesty by act of assembly, for the
support and maintenance of the government. 3. A revenue raised by the
assembly, and kept in their own disposal, for extraordinary occasions.
4. A revenue raised by the assembly, and granted to the college. And 5.
A revenue raised by act of parliament in England upon the trade there.

Sec. 13. 1. The rent reserved upon their lands, is called his majesty's
revenue of quit rents, and is two shillings for every hundred acres of
land, patented by any person in that country, and two pence per acre for
all lands found to escheat; this is paid into the treasury there by all,
except the inhabitants of the Northern Neck, who pay nothing to the
king; but the whole quit rent of that neck is paid to certain
proprietors of the Lord Colepepper's family, who have the possession
thereof to themselves, upon the pretensions before rehearsed in the
first part of this book.

This revenue has been upwards of fifteen hundred pounds a year, since
tobacco has held a good price. It is lodged in the receiver general's
hands,