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desired the Iudges of the Land Office to have Copies of the
several Patents made out as soon as possible, which shall be
properly Authenticated & transmitted according to your
Lordships Instructions. I have likewise wrote to the Sherriff
& Surveyor & desired them to make the strictest enquiry
whether any Vessels of Burthen have ever passed thro the
sound abovementioned, & in case any persons shall be found
that remember such a Transaction I have desired them to
take proper Affidavits which shall be Authenticated & trans-
mitted also without Delay. Mr Emory is I find ready to Cer-
tifie that so much of the Draft as the Line from Fenwix's
Island passes over is truly laid down & also that the Figures
which denote the Depth of Water in sundry parts of the
Sound are just & right, but he cannot swear that the whole is
an exact Copy of the Draft or Map which the Pensilvania Sur-
veyor & he signed & returned to the Commissioners, as he
did not keep a Copy by him but only the minutes from which
it was laid down, however I presume such a Certificate as he
can give is as much as can be wanted, and I shall therefore
transmit it with the other papers. I shall by this opportunity
send your Lordship a Copy of the Comission by Virtue of
which the Divisional Lines were to have been run according to
the Articles of Agreement, that your Lordship might be the
better able to Iudge what sort of Commission it will be neces-
sary to send over at this time. As I presume your Lordship
will think it proper that some of the Gentlemen of the Council
should be appointed Commissioners, I take the Liberty to
mention Colo Benjamin Tasker, Bennedict Calvert Esqr &
Colo Robert Ienkins Henry, who were appointed heretofore,
none of them I believe pretend to be Mathematicians, nor
indeed is there any Gentleman in your Lordships Council that
has made that Branch of Science his Study, but I mention
them because the two first are better able to undergo fatigue
than most of the rest, & Colo Henry is pretty well acquainted
with the Country where the Divisional Line will run; to these
Gentlemen or to as many of them as your Lordship shall be
pleased to appoint may be added Stephen Bordley Esqr your
Lordships Attorney General, The Revd Mr Alexr Malcolm one
of your Lordships Chaplines, & Mr John Leeds Clerk of Tal-
bott County, the two last are said to have studied the Mathe-
maticks as much as any Gentlemen among Us, & it will be
very proper that the Attorney General should attend for
many obvious Reasons, and since I have had occasion to men-
tion this Gentleman I take the Liberty also to recommend him
to the Seat that is vacant in your Lordships Council, wherein
if he shall meet with your Lordships Approbation I am per-
suaded he will behave in such a manner as to merit your
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