136 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

agreed with M^r Carroll for a Peice of ground on w^h he intends
to Build as early as possible this sufner coming his Lord^ps
office of Rec^r Gen^l N. B. it must be very sufficiently Con-
structed, with an Apartm^t &c^a at least for a Clerk, he must
have to reside there for his Corespondence & there must be
Rooms & with Divisions, Desks & shelves & Drawers to
place & Lock up all Deeds & papers &c^a belonging as well
as all his Lord^ps Mathematical lnst^ts belonging, & at w^h office
all his Lord^ps transactions belon^g to his Office of Rec^r
partout, must be there held, Issued & taken, & of w^h fair
Books, Ledgers & Entrys must be made to avoid all confu-
sion. I hope the spot on w^h the Building is to be Erected will
sufficiently admit additional Buildings & have extension of
ground to contain all matter & things necessary for the resi-
dence of the Rec^r Gen^l M^r Penn says, he has well considered
this Point at Philadelphia City: where he says his office is
compleat. If y^r direction & circumspection is not given to
this real Necessary object by plan from y^r Approbation &
regulated by y^r influence & care, the Establishm^t & Expence
will produce Nothing, therefore Pray y^r attention as satisfac-
tion to his Lord^p & relieve him from his anxiety, th^t he may
know the Happiness of his real subsistance in Life the only
means to regulate his Honour due to others, & well to his
mind's content. I Question much whether any Rule has been
observed in the Planning of any City of any Spots of ground
for Public Edifices & market places with some allowance of
ground in any City or Town, & its Environs reserves to the
Lord Proprietor of Maryland has ever been observed to the
Lord Proprietors & his Heirs, this I fear has not been attended
to except a penny p^r Lot of ground, my suspicion I ground as
p^r Lot of ground now to be purchased in the City of Annap-
olis of M^r Charles Carrol, whose sire was the planner oi that
City, I think in Queen Ann's time, & was during my Grand-
father his sole manager & Rec^r Gen^l & in part of time for the
late Lord or his family, originally no better than Irish Beggar
Papists, routed by Gov^r Hart, who evinced the Late Lord
Proprietor of his insufferable unjust wrongs, & by a scheme
well grounded by alteration of the receipt of Quit Rent &c^a
taken no longer p^r Hogshead on Tobacco compromis'd Bill
by Act of Assembly during only three years, then to be
re-enacted: the dread of this Bill not passing the Lo. H. always
upon passing took opportunity to enfringe on the Proprietors'
rights, depending for certain, if the Lord Proprietor object'd
the Terror of the Bill, than he would throw himself out of
receipt of money for his Quit Rents &c^a this being the case
occasioned the pass of that Bill at home: But Gov^r Hart had
countermined that imposition by search into the value of Quit