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54 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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that Spot is not included within the Bounds as is there platted
& described, & Stevenson the Officer who first surveyed the
Land, avers & contends that He never ran other Courses than
were returned to the Land Office; This is all I can yet dis-
cover of the Affair; the Question at present is whether some
Wittnesses that Mr Digges can produce will invalidate Steven-
son's Testimony; turn that out as it may yet as the Pensilva-
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nians had procured a Copy of the Land platted from the Mary-
land Land Office & thereby ruled themselves in making Survey
of the contiguous Land as lying in Pensilvania before His
Majesty's order in Council; I apprehend we cannot proceed to
bring the Murtherer to Justice in this province.
I was very uneasy at not being able to transmit the Rental
Books more speedily, but have taken Care that the Agent has
sent as many as were compleated by this same Conveyance, &
hope the Rent Rolls for the remaining Counties will be pre-
pared to transmit by a very early Opportunity; with the
greatest alacrity & Satisfaction would I have complied with
your Lordships Desire to have the plan delivered me for the
Collection of the Quit Rents by the respective Sheriffs put
immediately in Execution had it not been absolutely imprac-
ticable in the short time that intervened between my arrival &
the Expiration of the term for which the former Receivers had
engaged; Several of the Sheriffs in Office were not able to
give sufficient security for the due & punctual payment of them
to your Ldp's Agent, & to have displaced them at that time so
suddenly would have been their entire Ruin, wch I was per-
suaded was far from your Ldp's Desire or Design. I have
consented therefore to the farming your Ldp's Rents for the
Term of two years & when that time is elapsed I will put that
plan in Execution I hope entirely to your Ldp's Satisfaction.
I have herewith sent for your Ldp's information & satisfac-
tion an exact State of the worth of the respprtive Ecclesiastical
Benefices in the province at this time; your Ldp will see that
the Divisions already made have reduced most of them to a
very moderate Value. The misinformation that had been
given me made me represent untruly the Income of some of
those that are now vacant, which Error your Ldp will be hereby
enabled to rectify: And as the Decease of Mr Cox in Queen
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Ann County has vacated a Parish something less in Value than
that in Dorchester to which I recommended Mr Malcolm, I have
taken the Liberty to favour Mr Malcolms later Request, by in-
ducting him to St Paul's in Queen Ann County which being
more compact, the Duty of it can be discharged with less
fatigue to a person in years which is Mr Malcom's Case; &
Mr Meyer according to your Ldp's Appointment succeeds him
at Annapolis as the Income to the Rector of Annapolis is
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