Richard Andrews, an honest attorney of Petersfield, is allowed my quitrents for holding my courts, and he might surely, without more trouble or wages, receive and remit the rents of three or four farms.
Protests from Virginia of these grants forced the revocation of the special gifts in 1684, although Culpeper retained the right to the quitrents in the Northern Neck.
Assistance in collection of quitrentswas provided by the sheriff who was designated as the recipient of payments for each county with the fee of ten per cent of the collections being allowed him.
The proprietors held their land in free and common socage, and the planters in the Northern Neck paid quitrents and fees to the proprietors rather than to the crown.
Two years later the quitrents were given to Lords Arlington and Culpeper, including collections that might be made of rents in arrears.
Collection of quitrents at various times was farmed out to members of the Council and to the Governor, with the Councilor concerned usually taking the counties near his own residence.
When Virginia became a royal colony in 1624, the quitrents were then payable at the rate of one shilling for every fifty acres patented.
In 1671 the privilege of collecting and using the quitrents was granted to Colonel Henry Norwood, who had supported faithfully the King and the royal cause during the civil war.
Being unable to inaugurate the proposed plan for land reform of the Board of Trade, Nicholson turned to the improvement of collection of quitrents as the most feasible means of achieving the approximate goal.
Under the company there is some question whether quitrents were due.
It turned out, however, to be a shrewd business move on the part of Thomas Penn; for the 5000 pounds was to be collected out of the quitrents that were in arrears, and the payment of it was in consequence long delayed.
His expenses in England were so great and his quitrents always so much in arrears that he was seldom out of debt.
The rest of New Jersey colonial history is made up chiefly of struggles over these two questions--the rights of the proprietors and their quitrents as against the people, and the rights of the new assembly as against the Crown.
He had to collect from their land the purchase money and quitrentsrapidly rolling up in value with the increase of population into millions of pounds sterling, for which he was responsible to his relatives.
It was hoped that he would vigorously check all irregularities and bring Penn better returns from quitrents and sales of land.
In her time the ocean was free from enemy cruisers, and the trade of the colony grew so rapidly that the increasing sales of land and quitrents soon enabled her to pay off the mortgage on the province and all the rest of her husband's debts.
The sum realized from the amount of quitrents paid was totally inadequate to pay the official salaries.
They further prayed for a remission of the quitrents in arrear, and that in future they might have the option of paying the quitrents either in London or the island.
It was calculated by the government that the quitrents would amount in the aggregate to fourteen hundred and seventy pounds sterling.
This arrangement was to remain in force not more than ten years, and in the event of the quitrents falling short, from any cause, of the required sum, the salaries were to be diminished in proportion.
But in the year 1785 another act passed, by which the inhabitants of the Northern Neck are exonerated and discharged from paying composition and quitrentsto the commonwealth.
It is repugnant to no part of the treaty, with respect to the quitrents confiscated by the act of 1782.
In the year 1783, an act passed restoring to the legal representative of the proprietor the quitrents due to him at the time of his death.
When quitrents were demanded some refused payment, others had nothing to offer.
The money arising from quitrents and the sale of lands was inconsiderable, hard to be collected, and by no means adequate to the support of government.
It was agreed to take the arrears of quitrents either in money or commodities, as should be most easy and convenient for the planters.
In the two years my taxes levied andquitrents amounted to L199 .
To this revenue from quitrents could be added the benefit to be expected from the company's control of the colony's trade.
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