Extract of a letter from Governor Wood to the Earl of Suffolk (Secretary of State) dated 8 January 1774, complaining of four years' arrears in his £600 annual salary. Wood explains his attempts to obtain payment from the Receiver General and the Board of Treasury, including drawing a bill for £1000 on 14 March 1772, which was refused on grounds that no fund existed outside the appropriated revenues of the Isle of Man. The letter reveals administrative friction over salary payment mechanisms post-Revestment.