124 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

Commissioners having insisted on That being a part of the
Instructions, & as the running such Line was recommended
by the Hints we could not avoid complying with their
Requisition. Lest His Excellency should not have had an
Opportunity of writing to London by a Ship from Maryland
since we left Annapolis I embrace this Opportunity to inform
you that after passing about thirty five Bills into Laws among
which was an Inspection Law clear of the exceptionable parts
which had been heretofore inserted, he on the 26^th of last
Month prorogued the Assembly & that the Inhabitants still
remain undisturbed on the Frontiers of Maryland. As we are
just about to leave Phila^a & expect to reach Annapolis about
the End of the week I am in hopes His Excellency will have
an early Opportunity of transmitting you a compleat Copy of
the Surveyors Minutes & a Duplicate of the Minutes & State I
now do myself the honour to inclose & also of answering that
Letter of yours which Mess^rs Mason & Dixon have now
desired me to deliver to him.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of the Governors 125^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated
Annapolis 28^th Dec^r 1763 transmitted by Capt Christie.
Sir
Having now a good Opportunity of transmitting Letters to
London by a Ship that is about to sail from this place I
embrace it to give you some Account of the Assembly's pro-
ceedings during their last Session, of what has been since
agreed on by the Commissioners at their Meeting in Phila-
delphia, & also to acknowledge my Receipt of your several
Letters dated the 20^th of June, 20^th of July, 17^th of Aug^st & 3^d
of Sept^r last together with the Parchments & Papers you were
therewith pleased to transmit me. With the Letter I wrote to
you the 10^th of last Month I sent you Copies of my Speech to
both Houses of Assembly at the opening of the Session & the
Addresses they respectively presented to me thereupon at the
same time I informed you that in pursuance of an Agreement
which the two Houses after some Contest had come into at a
Conference An Inspection Law that would not be exception-
able on Account of any money Clause was then framing &
that I had some hopes of their preparing a Bill for the pay-
ment of the Militia who had from time to time during the
Continuance of the War marched to the Frontiers in Obedience
to my Orders. As I was satisfied there would have been a
good deal of Confusion in the province if the Inspection Law
had dropt, It gave me great pleasure to find that a Message
I sent the two Houses with respect to it while the Bill was