120 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of the 124^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis the
10^th of Nov^r 1763 transmitted by Capt M^cLaurin &
Duplicate by Capt Watson.
Sir
I am glad to have an Opportunity of writing by a Ship that
came down the Bay yesterday & is just about to sail from this
place to inform you that at a Conference between the two
Houses yesterday in the Afternoon it was agreed that as the
Inspection Law will expire the first of next month a new one
shall now be framed in such a manner as that it may not in
any respect even seem to contravene the Statute of Queen
Ann, while it will preserve to the Officers all & indeed more
than all the Advantages which they derived from the old
Inspection Law. No Dispute has yet arisen between the two
Houses since the Opening of the Session except on the
Inspection Law which as I have already intimated is happily
accomodated. I am not without hopes that agreeable to
what I recommended to both Houses in my Speech they
will now provide for the Payment of all the Militia who
in Obedience to my Orders served on the Frontiers during
the War, which will be an Encouragement to others to obey
with Chearfulness any similar Orders that I may hereafter
think fit to issue & as the Assembly have also by a Bill now
lying for my Assent appropriated a Sum of Money for the
Encouragement & Reward of such as may kill or take Prison-
ers any Indian Enemy within the Limits of this Province,
Our Frontier Inhabitants will I think be pretty well satisfied
tho nothing more should be done for their protection. It is
with pleasure I inform you that while the Indian Parties have
from time to time this Summer very much harrassed the Fron-
tier Inhabitants of the two neighbouring Colonies scarcely any
of them have made an Incursion into this Province & when
they did they were generally obliged to retire with Loss.
According to the last Accounts which have been received from
Pittsburg large Bodies of Indians have several times made
their Appearance before that Fort but as the Garrison is now
sufficiently numerous & well supplied with Provisions they
are not under the least Uneasiness on Account of such Indians
Visits. The Fort at Detroit it seems is still invested & as
some Supplies of Provisions which had been ordered thither
were lost they were I understand under a good Deal of
Uneasiness for a time at New York about the Fate of the
Place, nor do I find that they are yet free from Apprehensions
concerning it. As Governor Hamilton had a few Days before
the Commissioners met the 20^th of last Month at George