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Right & appoint the Land for other Purposes. His Lordp
thanks you for yr Clear Decernmt & service therein & Desires,
you'l lose no time to order the Land Surveyor to Plan the
Premises with Enter into his Land Office, by Style & Title of
Bridgewater Manor, & that the Land may be Occupied by
Setlers under the same conditions his Lordps Manor Lands are.
These properties, will increase the Proprietors Revenues when
all the Land is sold, the Period of time when the Land Office
will cease. The Choptank Indian Land his Lordp Directs
under the Title of the Manor of Egerton on vacancy in Honour
to his Lady.
Concerng Mr Darnall Attory Genl in yrs Iune the Ist you seem
to think him not Sufficiently qualified for that Employ, other-
wise a Well Behaved sensible Man. 'Tis Certain, the most
able Lawyer ought to be for that Service, What think you of
Mr Bordley Counselor at Law. He is said to be so. His
Lordp in his Instns to you appoints him for Naval Officer at
Patuxent on yr request, make his acceptance conditional by
taking the Employ of Attory Genl Both the Proffits will be
good reward to him. As to Mr Darnall, My Lords Instns
Rewards him Deserving. The return of the Laws to the
Council is desired to be Quickn'd. Of County Work Houses
you Note for Vagrants. My Lord Approves well of such a
Law, care being taken in the formation thereof to hinder that
the persons Employ'd make not the Staple Manufactures of
Great Britain, from Produce of Maryland, as it will occasion a
Petition to Parliamt agt such Provincial Manufacture. The
Mother Country will not Suffer Prejudice by Loss of Supply to
her Colonies & by her Traffick Especially in Cloath to Foreign
Markets. With relation to the Council Allowance. The
Extracts Concerng I sent you were to prove the same due.
My Lords Instns with you speaks of Concessions by them, wh
he has been in hopes wod have adjusted the Difference bet:
them & the Lo: House, if that will not do, his Lordp Considers
it not on him to be subject to a Demand or call upon him. Of
his Consideration to the Council, the Uppr House, he thinks
he gives proof in as much as they Enjoy from him the Most
Lucrative Employs in the Province; However, that is no Rea-
son with him- why they are to cease their Legislative Demand
on the Public, any more than the Lo: House Doth.
The affair of the Ohio, the Defeat of Major Washington by
the French is the Subject here, Losst from his Un-Military
Skill. Major Genl Bradock with Considerable Forces & a
Grand Train of Artillery having taken Departure for America,
leaves Me little to say on that Head, as his Arrival will inform
you of the Expidition Truly. I incert some Extract Minits out
of the Votes of the Comons as it relates in General to America
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