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Letter Bk. IV

his stead I should not take upon me to do so, but that I would
write to you about it: he then desired me to make favourable
mention of his Brother, This & your Solicitude to have M^r
Walter Dulany put into some place of Trust laid me under
the necessity of giving my Assent, tho I do not for my part
expect any Good therefrom : Had nothing passed between you
& M^r Dulany on the Subject which could encourage him to
expect you will appoint or recommend his Brother to be
Agent, It might perhaps be worth while to consider whether
the conferring two of the principal Offices besides others of
less Importance on one Family may not give such Family too
much power & Influence in the Government & whether it is
certain such power will be always exerted to promote His
Ldp's Service & to render his Governor's Administration easy,
but as I presume you would not have had such Conversation
with M^r Dulany unless you intended to serve his Brother in the
manner he tells me I shall only add that I hope His Ldp's
Commission to the new Agent whenever he shall be appointed
will be sent from England & that it will not be left to me to
issue the Commission or make the Appointment. When I
was lately at Col^o Lloyds he took an Opportunity to inform
me that unless I objected thereto he intended to ask a favour
of His Ldp for M^r Goldsborough which he was in hopes you
would obtain for him since it would be conferring an Obliga-
tion on that Gentleman without doing an injury to any Person
whatever. As I have great Reason to be satisfied with M^r
Goldsborough's Behaviour you may be assured I could not on
such an Occasion help expressing a Desire to have an Oppor-
tunity of serving him & then the Colonel told me that he
intended to ask Leave to resign in his Friends favour the
Office of Keeper of the Western Shore Rent Roll so that if
the proposal should be agreeable to you M^r Goldsborough
might be thereupon made Keeper of the Eastern & M^r Thomas
Keeper of the Western Shore Rent Roll, to which I replied
that I much doubted whether the proposal would meet with
Approbation at home but that if it was agreeable to His Ldp
& Yourself I should not for my part make any Objection to
its being carried into Execution. In answer to what I said to
the Colonel about his having neglected to transmit his Accounts
regularly he acknowledged that it had been too much the Case
owing to the Multiplicity of Business he had been for some
years engaged in, to his Clerks leaving him & to other
unavoidable Accidents but that he had now transmitted his
Accounts down to last September & hoped to be able for the
future to transmit his Accounts annually & regularly: that as
to the Mode prescribed to him by His Ldps Instructions he
was willing to pursue it, & would if possible get a Piece of