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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 191


 

 
Service. You may be pleased to observe in the proceedings
that on the Representation of Mr Crabb an ignorant over-
bearing Inhabitant of Frederick County the House thought
proper to summon one Mr Rawlins a Magistrate of the afore-
said County who unhappily for him lives near Mr Crabb a
Member of Assembly & had not shewn him such Deference
as he perhaps expected. The pretended Reason for their pro-
ceeding to such Lengths with Mr Rawlins & making him attend
their House almost during the whole Session to his great
Detriment & Expence You will see in the Report of the
Committee, & how unreasonable & unjust their proceedings
were thereon will in part appear from the Substance of the
papers on which my Message to them was founded. The
Justice might perhaps be no Lawyer or well acquainted with
such Learning as a Magistrate ought to be Master of but his
Life & Conduct never that I can find gave the least Room for
any Suspicion of his being unjust or partial & Men endowed
with the contrary of these two Qualities only must in this Young
Country be sometimes preferred to the Bench of Magistrates.
Many of the Lower House when they came to be acquainted
with & see into the whole Affair acknowledged themselves
sorry that they had been so ready to credit Mr Crabbs Repre-
sentations but as they had proceeded to take the Matters
under their Consideration & to put the Magistrate to a great
Expence they did not think it would redound much to their
honour to drop the Affair entirely & therefore Addressed me
thereon hoping I should take no farther notice of the matter ;
but as the Conniving at such a proceedure would have sub-
jected all His Ldp's Magistrates & Iustices to the Caprice or
humour of the Assembly & in fact made them dependant in
great measure on them (seeing the Lower House might easily
cook up pretences to summon any other Magistrates & put
them to similar Expences) I thought it not proper or for his
Ldp's Interest to pass over the Affair & their Address in
Silence, but communicated to them my Sentiments in an
Answer to their Address: as they begun to see the Levity of
their Accusation & could not attempt to justify their Behaviour
they resolved that some parts of my Message which bore hard
on them should not be printed or make a part of their pro-
ceedings as you will see by comparing the true Copy of my
Message with that entered in their lournal. 		Letter Bk. I.
p. 118
Lest His Ldp or you may be at all imposed on by the Report
of the Committee concerning Cresap's & the Recruiting
Officers Accots I must first advise you that t'was absolutely
impossible for them to determine about the Justice or
Reasonableness of the several Charges that their Committee
have observed on from such general Accounts as were sub- 		p. 119
 

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