Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 325

attended by M^r Charnier in order to make a final Settlement
of the Agents Accounts that being the time we thought proper
to allow those who are in Arrears to come & pay the Ballances
they respectively owe. I am My Ld &c.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of 6^th Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated 6^th August 1766.
transmitted by Captain Richardson.
D^r S^r
My last Letters bore Date the 14^th & 21^st July & were
transmitted by Capt Hanrick together with two Boxes one
containing Copies with the Great Seal appendant of the
several Acts of Assembly which were made here last December
& the other two bound Copies of Bacon's Edition of All our
Laws down to the year 1763 of which I herewith transmit
another Copy for your own use. I am also by this Oppor-
tunity to acknowledge my Receipt of the Letter you were
pleased to favour me with the 15^th of May last together with
an Instruction from His Ldp of the same Date & a Letter
bearing Date the 13^th of that Month. I did not for my part at
the time I advised you of the Difficulties started by M^r Dulany
upon his Receipt of your Deputation think there was much in
them & the same thoughts occurred to Me as are hinted in
your last Letter, nor do I think he would have made any
objection to the Deputation had it not directed the Business
to be transacted in your Name & the Fees to be received to
your use in which particular you see by the Copies of Com-
missions I transmitted there was a Variance between them &
yours: Most of the Secretaries Offices in the Colonies are I
believe executed by Deputies who in attesting Certificates &c
sign as Deputies & indeed M^r Dulany does the same never-
theless he is I find still of Opinion that the Acts of Assembly
consider him as Principal & that no Person who does not
come to qualify himself in the province can under these Acts
be considered as an Officer of the Government, at least this is
what he told me again a few Days ago when I spoke to him
in Consequence of your Letter & His Ldp's Instruction. If,
said he, His Ldp's Commission to M^r Hamersley is Recorded
in the Provincial Records It will supersede mine immediately,
I cant act under the Deputation he sent me last November &
if your Excellency was to issue another Commission to Me
after M^r Hamersley's Commission is recorded such Commis-
sion would supersede his: He will therefore untill I can hear
from you again on the Subject continue to act under a Com-
mission I shall now issue for there is an Impropriety in his
acting under that issued by me when M^r Calvert was Secretary,

Letter Bk. IV