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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1753-1757
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 399


 

 
pay Officers at the End of this American War being much less
than it will be if different measures are pursued I cannot con.
elude this Article without observing that if my hands had not
been tied up by such Instructions as empty Coffers seem
to have dictated I should many Months ago have had a Regi-
ment of Maryland Troops under my Command & in all
probability have been enabled to prevent any Incursions of
Indians into this Province & thereby have saved a great part
of the £1600 which His Ldp's Agent tells me he has lost by the
Back Inhabitants deserting their plantations to avoid the Bar-
barities of the Savages. I am glad you pressed Mr Calvert to
persuade My Lord to make his Tenants a present of some
Arms & if he would recover their Affections let him do so;
but I dare not speak lest it should be thought that I am courting
the people's Favour at another's Expence. I am concerned to
find the Instruction lately sent concerning Ordinary Lycences
was given with so much Regret or that it is thought a great
favour I assure you the Concession does not appear to many
here in that light & I heartily wish for His Lordship's Sake
more than my own that I had been ordered to wave the Dis-
pute about them before I was thro your Interest honoured with
a Lieut' Colonel's Commission Our Assembly is now sitting
& have framed a Bill for granting £40,000 for his Majesty's
Service but as it does not exempt His Ldp's Mannours & some
Lands which he has ordered to be reserved in the populous
parts of the province from the Land Tax which is imposed as
one of the Funds for sinking the Money I ought in Obedience
to a Letter which I have lately received from Mr Calvert to
reject the Bill & be guilty of such Reasoning as Govr Morris
has been in defending his Superiour's Instructions, but by what
I can find His Lordship's Council & best Friends will advise
me very differently & insist on my disobeying for once Mr
Calvert's Order, unless those Arms should haply arrive before
the Bill can be offered me. Whether I shall be approved or
condemned for this Step I cannot predict but am in hopes that
the arguments which may be used to convince His Lordship
that the preservation of his Province depends on a Supply Bill's
being passed at this Juncture & that his Ldp's Annual propor-
tion of the intended Tax will be less than the Interest of the
Money which according to his Agent's Account he lost last
year will excuse me for not insisting so strenuously on what
His Ldp & Mr Calvert distinguish by the name of preroga-
tive. I would not imply by any thing that has been said that
I at all approve of the Assembly's Conduct, on the Contrary
I think them absolutely inexcusable for the part they have acted
on this Occasion & if an Act of Generosity in His Ldp had
afforded me the least Room I would not have despaired of
Letter Bk. III

 
 

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