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whole Amount of the said Duty with Interest thereon from the
time when it ought to have been remitted to the Trustees, &
on this Consideration as Your Ldp will observe the Lower
House did not in their Address complain of him particularly,
tho I doubt not but they will in their several Counties speak
almost as freely of his Behaviour as of Mr Darnalls & indeed
as Mr Young is so indolent a Person & moreover lives at so
great a distance from Pocomoke that it is not possible for him
to superintend his Office as I lately intimated to Your Ldp I
could wish Colo Henry was appointed Naval Officer of that
District in his Stead. As I have reason to believe from what
Mr Tasker & Mr Lee tell me that the Ballance which by the
Committees Report appears to be still due from the Estate of
Mr Lee's Father the late Naval Officer of Potowmack was paid
by his Executors (about which Matter the Trustees can prob-
ably satisfy us) & Mr Chamberlaine promises to look into his
Books as soon as he goes home & satisfy me that nothing is
due from him which I am indeed already assured of, I shall not
trouble Your Ldp with any more Remarks on the Report than
that it seems to be the Sense of both Houses that the Trustees
in London ought not for the future to keep such large Sums
of the Country's money by them in expectation of Bank Stock's
falling but that they ought to vest such Money in Stock as
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soon as possible after they receive it from the Naval Officers,
since there is little probability of the Stocks falling so much
in a year or two as the Interest would in such time amount to,
which opinion of the two Houses I hope your Ldp will be
pleased to have communicated to the Trustees. And in order
to prevent any Loss for the future to Your Ldp or Your Lieutt
Governor from Naval Officers failing 1 should think it would
not be amiss to require from each of them a Bond (separate &
distinct from their Office Bond) with sufficient Sureties con-
ditioned that they shall regularly & faithfully account & pay
all such Sums as they may collect for the use of both your
Lordship & your Lieutenant Governor from the Masters of
Vessels trading in their respective Districts & I should also
think it would be proper for the future to increase the Penalty
of their Office Bond to £1500 or £2000 Stg but this matter I
submit to Your Ldps Consideration & am with the utmost
Respect &c.
[Sharpe to Calvert.]
Annapolis the 5th of May 1761. transmitted by the Ran-
dolph Capt Walker. Duplicate Via N Y pr Mr Scott.
Sir
It is with great Concern I now write to advise You of a
Report which hath been made by a Committee of both Houses,
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