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

Letter Bk. I.
Counties will be prepared to transmit by a very early opportu-
nity. The plan you favoured me with for the Collection of the
Quit Rents by the respective Sheriffs should have been im-
mediately put 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 His Ldp's Agent & to have displaced them at that time so
suddenly would very probably have been their entire Ruin
which I was persuaded was far from yours or His Ldps desire
or design. I have consented therefore to the farming all the
Quit Rents (except in two Counties on the Eastern Shore for
which no person could be prevailed on to engage) for the term
of two years at 1 5 p Ct which sets them on such a Footing as

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not to leave room for the Sheriffs to advance objections as
might perhaps have been otherways done against farming &
I promise myself that during this term His Ldp will receive
more money for His Rents than He did before even from those
Counties that were received for 10 p Ct when this time is
elapsed I will put that plan in execution I hope entirely to your
Satisfaction.
I have herewith for your information & Satisfaction inclosed
an exact State of the worth of the respective Ecclesiastical
Benefices in the province at this time; you will observe 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 you will be hereby
enabled to rectify. A similar State of all the Civil Offices you
shall receive soon after I can get it compleated which has been
retarded a little by the impossibility of ascertaining immediately
the Value of some of the Offices which have hardly yet been
a year conferred on the Persons who at this time enjoy them.
I have removed Mr Malcolm to St Pauls in Queen Ann
County the Honour done him by your kind mention of him
He is highly sensible of; & to succeed him I have appointed
Mr Meyer whom I should be glad to have liberty to present to
a better Living for Reasons that I have submitted to his Ldp
& which I hope will meet with your Approbation. Mr Dingle
whose name I mentioned in some former Letters I have (on
his being recommended by the Gentn of the Parish in which
He has officiated during his Residence in the province) In-
ducted to the Church on Kent Island, a Parish of very small
Value. This has given me an opportunity of executing the
Scheme you approved of for bringing the Clergy under some
Restriction. If His Ldp approves of their being required before
 

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