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[Sharpe to Calvert]
Copy of 127th Letter to Mr Calvert Dated 13th March 1764.
transmitted by the Content Capt New.
Sir
Agreeable to what I told you when 1 wrote to you by the
way of Bristol the 8th Inst. in answer to the Letter you had
been pleased to favour me with the 19th of November I now
transmit under the Great Seal Copies of the several Acts of
Assembly that were made at the last Session together with a
few Remarks on such of them as contain anything new, for
most of them as you will observe are no more than Acts to
revive & continue in force for a longer time some that were
about to expire. By this same Conveyance I hoped to have
also sent you Copies of the Journals of Proceedings in both
Houses during the Course of the late Session but being
voluminous they are not it seems yet ready, so that it will not
be now in my power to transmit them before the 20th of next
month when I am told another Vessel bound to London will
sail from this place. Together with the Acts passed last
Session I likewise send you thirty four Sheets of the Laws
that are now printing from Mr Bacon's Collection on a pre-
sumption that you would be glad to see how that Work is
carried on & I shall from time to time send you the Rest of
the Sheets as they come from the Press so that your Collec-
tion or Volume might be compleated & that in Case the Lords
of Trade should again call on you for a Copy of the Maryland
Laws you may have it in your power to shew them that the
Work is in great forwardness & that it will probably within a
year be in my power to comply with Their Ldp's Requisition.
As Mr Green the Printer takes great pains to perform his part
well & intimated to me that he wanted a Stamp or plate to
sett off & adorn the Frontispiece or Title Page with His Ldp's
or the Province Arms, I could not help telling him that I would
desire you to send One well engraved on Block Tin or Letter
Metal for that purpose & as it cannot I think cost much I hope
you will put it in my power to gratify him. The Figure
should I think be near twice as large as the Coat of Arms in
the Frontispiece of the inclosed Book covered with blue paper
& I apprehend the Supporters & also the Motto ought to be
the same as on the Great Seal. As the Impression on the
Great Seal is almost worn out I submit it to your Considera-
tion whether it would not be well to get another made & sent
hither to replace it especially as there seems to be an Impro-
priety in using a Seal at this time bearing the name of Charles
Lord Baltimore as Proprietary of the Province when his
Descendant Frederick is the true Lord Proprietary & as the
Great Seals of the neighbouring Provinces make a large &
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