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Money for his Majesty's Service. I cannot indeed promise :
that a Bill will be made for that purpose within any certain
time, but it is my opinion that if Your Excellency shall be
pleased to advance on the Credit of the Province such a Sum
of Money as was due to the Maryland Troops at that time &
to Mr Ross for Victualling both them & the Indians that have
at any time been furnished with Provisions at Fort Frederick
the Assembly will some Day repay it, but with regard to any
Expence that has been occasioned by Provisions being carried
to Fort Cumberland since any of the Maryland Troops have
been posted there as a Garrison, I am apt to think they never
will be prevailed on to defray it nor do I believe they will
ever agree to pay for Provisions or any thing else that our
Indian Friends may have been supplied with at that Fort.
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Letter Bk. III
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[Sharpe to Calvert.]
Conegochiegh the 11th of Iune 1758 & transmitted by One
of Colo. Lloyds Ships
Sir
Your Letter dated the 3d of March was brought to me last
night together with the Map & the several Papers therein
mentioned. I answered Your Letters of the 7th & 10th of
April, the 12th of Augst &c as soon as they came to hand but
I remember many of them were a long time on the Way
which was owing to one of Mr Russel's or Mr Anderson's
Masters putting into Virginia & keeping his Letters there a
month or six weeks. I shall immediately send Orders to the
Judges of the Land office to search the Records for Patents of
the Tracts of Land which have been heretofore granted on
Taylor's or Iames's Island & will transmit Copies of them
properly authenticated as soon as they can be prepared.
I have likewise ordered my Secretary to lay your Map before
Mr Emory whose Report thereupon together with the Com-
mission that the late Lord sent in to impower certain Gen-
tlemen to run the East & West Line from Fenwix's Island to
the Bay of Chesopeak & the Divisional Line from the middle
of that to the Newcastle Circle I hope to send you by the first
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p. 347
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Ship that sails for London from this Province. It is now
more than three Years since Governor Dinwiddie advised me
that the Legislature of Virginia had passed an Act for erecting
a Light House on Cape Henry & desired me to recommend
it to our Assembly to make one to the same Purport that the
Expence might be born equally by all the Ships trading into
the Bay of Chesopeak. The Journal of the Proceedings of the
Lower House of Assembly during the Session that was held
in 1756 will shew that I recommended it to them at that time
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