Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 109

that, you should transmit to me without delay, a List of all
Instruments made use of in publick Transactions, Law Pro-
ceedings, Grants, Conveyances, Securities of Land or Money,
within your Government with proper and sufficient Descrip-
tions of the same, in order that if Parliament should think
proper to pursue the Intention of the aforesaid Resolution,
they may thereby be enabled to carry it into Execution, in the
most effectual and least burthensome manner
If you should be unable of Yourself to prepare a List of
this kind, with sufficient Accuracy, You will in such Case
require the Assistance of the Principal Officer of the Law
within your Government who is the proper Person to be con-
sulted, towards procuring the said Information in the manner
required. I am with great Truth and Regard
Sir,
Your most obedient
humble Servant
Dunk Halifax

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of the 122^d Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis
[August 2 1] transmitted by & Duplicate by
Sir
Since I wrote to you the 2^d of last Month I have received
the several Letters you were pleased to send me the 27^th of
April & the 8^th & 11^th of May last. As I was at Newcastle at
a Meeting of the Commissioners when the Letter which D^r
Bevis had wrote to you the 28^th of April last came to my
hands I communicated the Contents of it to those of our
Commissioners that were then present who cannot help
lamenting with me that altho that able Gentleman has recom-
mended to us an Instrument for running the Divisional Lines
which he is confident & we are persuaded by his Description
of it is infinitely preferable to the means we have hitherto
been obliged to use, the Instrument is still in England & by
what you write likely to remain there owing as it should seem
by D^r Bevis's Letter to an erroneous Opinion entertained by
D^r Blair & by him instilled into M^r Penn which as far as I can
judge has occasioned an Expence to the Proprietors of two or
three Thousand Pounds & for ought I know may before all
the Lines are run increase the Expence five times as much:
I cannot indeed for my own part see how it will be possible to
run the Northern Boundary without the Transit Instrument &
then surely it would have been much better to have sent it to
us at first so that it might have been used in running the
Tangent. Since Doctor Bevis again recommends to us to

Letter Bk. IV