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some responsible Merchant his Security in which Case this
will be cancelled, but of the Expediency of such a Measure you
will be better able to judge when you have talked to him as
I presume you will concerning the Arrears that are now due
to you from him on Account of the Commissary's Office :
I need not I imagine inform you that the Commission Mr
Dulany has at present is issued by me as Governor not by
Virtue of any power of Attorney from you, if you choose to
supersede this by any other you will I suppose in that Case
tho you should not if the present Commission is to continue
in force desire him to prevail on some Merchant in London to
become his Surety for the punctual payment of what Sum you
& he shall agree on. I shall by this Opportunity write: Lo His
Ldp what occurs to me in answer to your Letter of the10th of
Jany concerning Mr Goldsborough whom I really thought from
what you have at times wrote to me particularly in your Letter
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dated the 18th Novr 1757 that His Ldp was desirous to destin-
guish by such Mark of Favour; If His Ldp should be still of
opinion that it would be better to appoint some other I hope
you will with His Ldp's permission inform me whom His
Ldp thinks most worthy & proper that if I know any thing
concerning such Gentleman which if known to His Ldp might
incline him to entertain a different opinion I may advise him
thereof, What induces me to make this Request is that para-
graph of Your Letter wherein you say " Others of Abilities not
Lawyers are well deserving from continued just Behaviour "
because I cannot tell to whom yuu therein allude. In my
Letter dated the 29th of April I gave you the Reason which I
presume induced Mr Goldsborough & several others to be on
the Affirmative Side of that question whereon Dr Steuart's was
the only negative Voice, & by the Journal which I now trans-
mit, you will see that Dr Steuart during the late Convention
found himself under a necessity of acting the same part, he
having Voted for the Appropriation of Ordinary Lycences
towards the Support of a College in Annapolis lest the Inhab-
itants his Constituents had he voted otherwise should have
deemed him an Enemy to the City & have rejected him at the
next Election & indeed if one was always to judge of a Mem-
ber's Inclination by the Votes & proceedings one should often
entertain an erroneous opinion, as for Instance in the Journal
now sent you (pages 23 & 24) it appears that there was a
Division upon a question whether 200 or 400 Men should be
raised for His Majesty's Service, & from the Entry a Stranger
would be apt to think that those who Voted for only 200
were most averse to promoting the Service tho the Truth is
that they who were strenuous for a greater Number proceeded
on this principle that if only a small Sum was to be raised they
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