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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 1757-1761
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Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 349

they will not choose to do, & if they decline it the unreason-
ableness of their Request for the Naval Officers Bonds being
put in Suit will be too flagrant to meet with the Approbation
of the considerate part of their Constituents. Together with
my Letter by Capt Brooke dated the 17th of April I hope you
have before this time received Authenticated Copies of the
two Acts of Assembly made in 1651 & 1661 & also an
Account of several Acts which preceeded the former & serve
to shew that the Assembly at the time of the Ld Proprietary's
Assenting to that Act considered it as a favour granted them
rather than as a Burthen: in the same Letter & again in my
Lettr dated the 4th of Iune I advised you of Govr Denny's
having at length gratified the Assembly of Pensa by passing
their favourite Assessment Bill whereby the Proprietaries
Estate will be subjected to the Payment of a monstrous Sum
towards sinking the Bills of Credit which have been struck at
several periods in that Province for the King's use. Since that 		Letter Bk.1V
time the Assembly have again met & having discovered at
length by what means Mr Denny's Assent was to be procured
have treated with him accordingly & obtained his Assent to
an Act for Reviving & continuing their favourite Excise Law
for 16 years longer, which Excise amounts annually to a very
considerable Sum & is entirely & solely at the Disposal of
the Assembly. This Act alone must in effect vest the As-
sembly with almost all the power in that Governmt All the
Officers concerned in collecting or managing this Revenue are
appointed either by the Assembly or the People, nor can the
latter ever want means during the Continuance of such an Act
to harrass the Proprietaries or tempt any Govr who is not well
fixed in his Integrity to sacrifice their Interest whenever the
Assembly shall be pleased to ask him. But it seems the
Assembly being not yet satisfied or as they say having not
sufficiently secured their Constitution are preparing some
other Bill of a very extraordinary nature which Goverr Denny
has also promised to pass for the same Reasons that he
assented to the other, but of what nature this Bill will be I
cannot learn the Transactions of that Assembly being kept a
profound Secret till every thing is perfectly finished. It is
with pleasure I inform you that every thing does now seem to
go on well to the Westward the 1st Battalion of Royal Amer-
icans & most of the Pensa & Virga Troops have either
already reached or are far advanced on their March to Pitts-
burg where Genl Stanwix is to build a respectable Fort:
The Garrison was indeed for some time this Spring but badly
supplied with Provisions but it is said that large Supplies have
been now carried out & if the General chooses to have Pro-
visions &c carried from Red-Stone Creek to the Ohio by 		p. 48

 


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