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The Independent Companies from So Carolina I expect this
Week, whom I shall send up to Alexandria imediately to follow
the others; & I very soon expect two other Companies from
N York, & have great Dependence on a Supply from Pensyl-
vania, which, when met in a Body, I hope with the Assistance
of our friendly Indians, will enable me to comply with His
Majesty's Comands, & make a proper Head against the French.
I shall be very glad of Your Advice & Opinion on the
Whole, & I beg Leave to assure you that
I am
Yr Excells
most Obedt & hble Servt
Robt Dinwiddie
P: S: Our General Court
is just going to meet
which puts me in a
great Hurry.
Govr Sharpe
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[Calvert to Sharpe.]
London April 17th 1754.
Dear Sir
By His Lordship's Instructions inclosed you have His
answers as to the Material Parts of yours of the 29th of Novem-
ber, the 10th and 26th of December last; with His answers to
the several Publick Papers.
The Maryland Gazette in which is recited the Acts of
Assembly, November the 22d bears date about the time the
Sessions of Assembly Ended, began on the 2d of October last.
The Transmission of the Laws of the Assembly, no Arrival of
them is surprizing. It being almost now five months since the
Close of the Assembly. I therefore cannot write certain in
relation to the Laws, they not having My Lord's Consideration.
I shall only make some Cursory Remarks on two Laws, the
Merchants here as represented to Them by their Correspond-
ents think prejudicial; And if true may Endanger the Pro-
prietor's Dissents. Vizt
A Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled, An Act for the
Relief of Creditors in England against Bankrupts, who have
imported any Goods into this Province, not accounted for.
I am inform'd the merchants in a Body intend to Petition
the Proprietor against the Supplementary Act. Aledging that
upon a Bankrupt Person in Maryland his Creditors here are
not to have Benefit of any of his Effects in Maryland, But from
an Over-plus after the Creditors are fully paid in the Province.
This the Merchants say is very alarming and will stop their
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