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to me the Lettr from Mr Calvert as well as those from the Sec-
retary of State the first I see was writ principally to introduce
me to Yourself in case I should have an Opportunity of paying
my Respects to you in person & of convincing you that Lord
Baltimores pleasure therein signified is most agreeable to my
own Inclinations. By one of the Letters from Mr Fox I am
directed to prepare & transmit to the Commander in Chief of
His Majesty's Forces in N America an exact & particular
Accot of the present Condition of this Province, the number of
our Inhabitants, quantity of Cannon small Arms Ammunition
& other Ordnance Stores in our Magazine or in the hands of
the Militia together with a true State of all Places already for-
tified or which I might judge necessary to be fortified in this
Province & as I cannot well give a more particular Account of
these Matters than I have already done to the Rt Honble the
Lds of Trade I will take the Liberty to inclose you a Copy of
my Lettr to their Ldps in Feby last since which time no mate-
rial Alteration has been made in the Condition or Circum-
stances of this Province — In a Letter which I did myself the
honour to address to the Earl of Loudon the 31st of May I
informed His Ldp that a Sum of Money had been granted by
our Assembly for supporting a Body of Men if it should be
thought proper for carrying on an Expedition to the Westward
I now inclose an Extract of the Act that grants such money
whereby you will see that tho it is made payable to any Gentn
that shall be appointed to command on such Expedition yet
our Treasurers are not at liberty to pay it till the Pensilvanians
as well as the Virginians have granted proportionable Supplies
for the same purpose. If His Ldp on His Arrival or the Com-
mander in Chief shall think proper to have the money other-
wise applied I hope to receive their Commands that I might
be able to communicate them in time to our Assembly which I
must convene for that purpose. As they thought proper at
their last Meeting to appropriate a particular Sum for con-
structing some places of Defence on our Frontiers & raising
200 men for the immediate protection of the Inhabitants, I am
agreeable to their Desire come hither to give the necessary
Orders for building such places; in about a month I beleive I
shall return again to Annapolis where I shall be always proud
to receive any Commands from His Ldp or yourself & on all
Occasions endeavour to shew that I am &c.
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[Lawrence to Sharpe.]
Duplicate. Halifax 1st Iuly 1756.
Sir
I am well informed that many of the French Inhabitants trans-
ported last year from this Province, and distributed among the
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