410 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Account & the several Accounts therein mentioned or re-
ferred to having been examined in the presence of His Excel-
lency &c were passed Signed by order A B." As all the
Gentlemen who would compose this Board of Review enjoy
Offices of considerable Profit under your Ldp I do not
apprehend that Either of them could desire any partic-
ular Reward for this Service, or their Attendance a few

Days on such an Occasion; But it will be expedient that
a Person attend the Board as often as it may sit in the
Capacity of a Clerk or Register; who doubtless ought to
receive some Recompence for his Trouble; the Quantum it
might be left to the Board to Settle, since they will be the best
Judges of his Services, & his Sallary might be paid out of the
Fines & Forfeitures, as I am told all incidental Charges have
been heretofore done. Now as to the proposal for Your Ldp's
appointing two Agents or Receivers General instead of One I
think it my Duty to tell your Ldp freely that in my Opinion
such an Appointment could be productive of no good Conse-
quences but would be attended with many Inconveniencies ;
besides if it is scarcely worth the present Agent's while (as
M^r Calvert tells me he says) to attend to & manage Your
Ldp's Revenue for the whole Salary that he is allowed, will it
be worth while or answer for two Gentlⁿ of Ability Character
& Fortune to devote their time to that Service or Employ-
ment for the same Allowance, & moreover would it appear
reasonable that when the Commissary General & Deputy Sec-
retary receive such large Sallaries for Doing little & running
no Risk, the Agent whose whole time ought to be devoted to
Your Ldp's Service & the management of Your Affairs &
who must run great Risks too on Account of the Quantity of
Cash he will sometimes have in his Custody should be but
scantily paid for his Care & Trouble. Were there to be two
Agents & one of them was to reside on the Eastern Shore
he must either depute a Person in this City to act for him, or
else every one that should have Business to transact with him
would be put to great Inconvenience, as for Instance if an Inhab-

itant of the Eastern Shore wanted to take up a Tract of Land
on that Side the Bay he must first ride to the Agent on that
Shore to pay his Caution or purchase money & obtain an
Order on the Land Office for a Warrant, to procure which
Warrant he must afterwards come to Annapolis; & should the
Agent happen to be from home when such Person went to
pay his Caution money what unnecessary Expence & Trouble
would he be put to. But not to mention others would not
many of the Inconveniencies which now arise from the Agent's
Residing on the Eastern Shore be then continued? Would
Your Ldp or Your Lieut Governor have the Benefit of his