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472 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. IV
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not have run the North Line which they have begun & the
Line from Newcastle to intersect it till the latter End of Iune
next I shall hope to receive Answers to the queries before we
proceed to run the Tangent, nevertheless as I flatter myself
the Course of that Line will be easily found by the Scheme
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we have adopted I am not very anxious to receive the Answers
on that Account, but in case the North Line which the Sur-
veyors have begun should be the Tangent required or be
found to deviate very little from the Tangent directed to be
run, We must I presume immediately proceed to run the
rest of the Lines mentioned in the Articles & in our Commis-
sion, which I perceive ought to be compleated & that a Return
thereof ought to be made by us at farthest some time in April
1762 But My Ld as both the Commissioners & Surveyors
are unanimously of Opinion that the several Divisional Lines
cannot possibly be run within the Time limitted We did as
will appear by our Minute of Decr the 9th agree to represent
the same to your Ldp & the Proprietors of Pennsylvania &
to desire that the Time might be protracted at least one year
or as much longer as your Ldp & they shall think fit. The
Sheriff of Worcester County (one third of which at least lies
North of the Line that was run in 1751 from Fenwix's Island)
having while the Commissioners were below applied to Colo
Lloyd & desired to know whether he ought to demand &
receive any more Quit-Rents from such People as live on the
North Side of the said Line, I thereupon stated several queries
which the Sheriffs Application suggested to me & as neither
Mr Dulany nor Mr Bordley were then with us (the former
having as I said never acted as a Commissioner & the Latter
having left us at Newcastle) I submitted them to the Consid-
eration of Mr Chs Goldsborough a Lawyer who lives in Dor-
chester County & on receiving his answers I gave Colo Lloyd a
Copy of them, but I have since submitted the same Queries & a
few more to Your Ldp's Attorney Genl whose Answers as well
as Mr Dulanys (for I shall desire his Opinion likewise) I will also
transmit to Colo Lloyd that he might give the several Receivers
such Instructions for their future Conduct in Collecting the
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Quit Rents due for Border Lands as he shall think proper, so
as that no Disturbances may be occasioned by the Receivers
distraining on People who cannot be compelled to pay, for I
must observe to Your Ldp that the Farmers of Worcester
Somerset Dorchester & Queen Anns Counties in particular
have for many years past received Quit Rents for a great
many Tracts of Land that lye on the North Side of the Line
that was run from Fenwix's Island & on the East Side of the
Tangent which is to be a Boundary. That Your Ldp might
see what kind of Queries they were on which I thought it
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