148 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

by you & if not y^r strickt care & other his Lord^ps Comiss^rs for
the due execution of said Line my Lord in that Quarter will
be pinched & of the same regarding the North, as an inducem^t
to the New Surveyors the Mess^rs Penns have promised on
Behaviour to them, they will obtain an order from the Crown
for them to run the North Boundary Lines of Pensilvania, this
as a Douceur. As to prolongation of time for performance
the Boundary Lines than what is Limitted by the last Comis-
sion sent you, you have my consent herewith & his Lord^ps
Comissioners My consent to agree for such prolongation of
further time, on Lord Baltimores part that you & his Lord^ps
Comiss^rs shall judge & agree with the Pensilvania Comiss^rs for
the due runing the said Boundary Lines bet: the Provinces
of Maryland & Pensilvania, & this my Declaration is suff^t
warrant for y^r so Doing, as to M^r Proby, my Duty required his
Case with reference to you, I have no doubt of y^r Hon^ble dis-
charge, he was rough & insolent here, huff'd his Threats as
an American, But of little Notice here his tale of Tub com-
posed of words with^t Evidences, he is return'd to America.
Enter Nous, I glad of the American Act, it will decide &.
hinder all wrangle ab^t the means of Assessm^t Bills, the
American Legislatures have Craftly precluded themselves
from their Duty to the King & even themselves: the real Lex
Parliament! will improve them, Officers & Soldiers will Quiet
them & keep them in Duty to the King & themselves, 'tis
right Policy that all maintain jointly when need calls upon the
State. M^r Dulany's Doctrine ab^l the Ordinary Lycences (w^h
I by no means allow) if so, then his Lord^p has a compliment
to yield to parliament that right, for I take for granted this
American Act now in the Mint of parliament will want addi-
tional amendm^ts e'r it truly answers the purpose of releif to
the mother Country: the American Sophistry will be over
shoes over Bootes in the mud. for Charter Goverm^ts tis but
to be adjuged & determined De Corpore Politico in the real
Parliament than by abstruse presumptive Legislatures. ' he
that holds Goverm^t in subordination to anothers Power, may
properly be said to be in a cleft stick, pinch'd Between, always
Blameable & impossible to please. By the Tenor of the
American Act by the Parliament, I suspect according to the
American Behaviour Animosity & Ill-nature will defuse from
thence to their Agents by remonstrances, food for Agents to
make Expensive Bills, it will not avail, discourage such pro-
ceed^g surpress all you can: hope the Up^r H. will not join in
no such suite, But reject it, noways desirous to excluded them-
selves in Duty Bound to the King & their Country & by the
fundamental Law of Nature Self-Defence. I thank you for
y^r present to come to me of an Indian Scalp, it will be a Nov-