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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 141

[Sharpe to Loudoun.] 2d of March 1758.
My Ld
An Express to General Webb calling on me in his Way to
N York I embrace the Opportunity to inform Your Ldp that a
few Days after I laid before our Assembly the Letter which you
were pleased to favour me with the 30* of Decemr the Gentn
of the Lower House passed a Vote for supporting 400 men
half of them to be at Your Ldp's Disposal if you would both
pay & victual them in case they were carried out of the Prov-
ince but the next Day this Vote was reassumed & it was then
resolved that they would keep up 300 Men & no more during
the approaching Summer. Before a Bill could be framed in
Consequence of this Resolution I communicated to them
Your Ldp's Letter of the 13th of Feby which I had just received
& pressed them in the most earnest manner to comply with
Your Requisition. What their final Result on this will be I
do not as yet know for certain; They may perhaps at this
time to save Appearances pass a Vote for the Number of Men
that Your Lordship demands but when they prepare a Bill for
their Support such Proposals will I am persuaded be made
for raising the money as neither the Upper House nor I can
with honour agree to, & such Concessions be insisted on as we
cannot make without rendering the Governt contemptible &
suffering dangerous Innovations in our Constitution.
A Doctrine having been industriously propagated among
our Troops upon the Conclusion of our last Session by a
Member of the Lower House as I am well informed that as
the Assembly had broke up without making any Provision
for their Support they were of Course disbanded & no longer
subject to the Command of any Military Officer whatever, I
thought it my Duty as soon as I was advised thereof to order
two Companies of Militia to the Frontiers that in Case such
Discourses should have the Effect that was intended they
might be on the Spot ready to garrison Fort Frederick or to
be otherwise disposed of as the Officer commanding there
should think proper; but no sooner was it known that such
orders were issued than every method was taken by some of
the members of the Lower House to dissuade & discourage
those Companies from marching. Having failed however in
this Attempt as well as in that upon the Soldiers, they are I
am told about to draw up a Remonstrance against the orders
that were given to the Captains of the two Companies above-
mentioned with a view of biassing the Juries that might be
impanelled when a few of the militia that were refractory &
refused to march are tried at our next Provincial Court for
Disobeying Orders. The principal Argument on which they 		Letter Bk. III


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