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150 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. I.
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neighbouring Colonies I dont know but I am afraid they will
be considered here in the light of Instructions to the Gov-
ernors to procure Supplies at any Rate & that our Assembly
will upon this Supposition become more unreasonable in their
Demands. You will learn from the inclosed Gazettes what
lengths the Assembly of Pensilvania has lately gone both
Mr More & Mr Smith are in Prison still & by what I can find
are to remain there untill His Majesty shall be pleased to send
an Order for their being released. Should this Transaction
pass unnoticed or be in the least Degree countenanced you
may depend upon it that from this time forward the Sense of
our Assemblies will be regarded as Law by every Magistrate
& that no sort of Respect will be hereafter paid to any other
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Branch of our Legislature. I shall send you by this Oppor-
tunity a Triplicate of my last Letter together with another
Copy of the Supply Bill that was rejected & a Copy of the
Upper House Journal for the Septr Session; Also Copies of
the Laws that I assented to the 16th of Decemr All which
except the Ist 13th 14th & 17th being no more than Reviving or
Continuing Acts I need not say any thing about them, &
the Rest are too simple to afford any Room for Remarks
especially as the Reasons for making them are given in their
respective Preambles. Fort Cumberland is as yet garrisoned
by some of the Troops that were raised for the more immedi-
ate Defence of this Province; they had some Reason to hope
that the Earl of Loudoun would have given orders for their
being paid from the 8th of Octr last out of the Contingent
Fund as the Assembly would not make any Provision for their
Support; but I am afraid they will now be disappointed in
such their Expectations. I cannot send by this opportunity
the Report of our several County Courts relative to the Beha-
viour of the Roman Catholicks because they have not all
answered my last Letter but I expect it will be in my power
about the End of this Month to send you such a Report from
the Magistrates of the several Counties in favour of those
people as must convince you that the Rumours you mentioned
were entirely groundless.
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Letter Bk.III
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[Sharpe to Stanwix.]
March the 12th 1758.
Dr Sr
I am now to inform you that our Session of Assembly has
ended just as I expected it would when I wrote to you the 4th
Inst. The Gentn of the Upper House having refused to assent
to the Bill that was offered by the Lower & that differed very
little from their last, The Lower House thereupon came to a
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