power to give him any, unless you shall be pleased to have
the Dispute that subsists between our two Houses of Assembly
examined into & settled, or shall press them to wave it for a
time & to raise the necessary Supplies by some or other of
the Methods which have heretofore met with the Concurrence
of both Houses. In the mean time the Officers that com-
manded the Maryland Troops during the late Campaign &
the preceeding Winter (having advanced on Account of their
Men considerable Sums) are much distressed as well as the
Person that by the Earl of Loudoun's Directions Victualled
our Provincials from the Beginning of Octr 1757 (when our
Assembly first declined raising money to pay them) till May
last when Brigadier Forbes ordered them to join the Rest of
His Majesty's Forces under his Command but as I have upon
the Intimation you were pleased to give me the 29th of Decr
about transmitting proper Documents taken the Liberty to
advise the Officers of the Maryland Troops & the Person that
Victualled them to have a full & clear State of their Affair
drawn up & to annex thereto an exact Account of what is due
to them respectively that it might be transmitted in hopes that
some Compensation will be given them by His Majesty & the
Parliament for their Services, I at this time decline troubling
you with a more prolix Letter & shall only add that with the
utmost Respect I am &c
[Sharpe to Denny.]
18th April 1759 —
Sr
Some Days after my Return from Phila I received from one
of our Provincial Justices several Depositions that had been
made before himself & some of the Justices of the Peace for
Somerset & Worcester Counties in this Province relative to
the Death of Willm Outten lately a Deputy Sheriff in the
County of Worcester. The Gentln of the Council being sitting
here at the time that. the Depositions came to my hands I
immediately laid 'em before them together with the Copies of
Depositions concerning the same Affair that Mr Peters put
into my hands by your order when I was at Philaa & I desired
the Gentn after they had read & considered the Depositions
to give me their opinion & Advice thereupon which they have
accordingly done as you will see by a Copy of their Report
which I now send you together with Copies of the abovemen-
tioned Depositions not doubting but you will be thereby satis-
fied of the Propriety of this Application & be induced to
comply with the following Requests wch on this occasion I
think it my Duty to make to you.
That you will be pleased to give the necessary orders to the
several Magistrates & Officers within your Governments that
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