Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 167

Universities since the Inhabitants do not seem fond of edu-
cating their Children for the Church. I am sorry to tell you
that M^r Bordley still continues in a very poor State of Health
so that finding the Business of the Commissarys Office too
fatiguing & troublesome he has more than once desired M^r
Ridout to act again in that Office, but that Request you know
the latter could not comply with as you had signified His
Ldp's Opinion & Instructions that for the future some Lawyer
should be always appointed Commissary; wherefore M^r
Bordley as he has not yet desired Leave to resign continues
in that Office : should he quit it or his Decease make it neces-
sary for me to issue a new Commission I shall in pursuance of
your Instructions appoint M^r Goldsborough. As I perceive
you are very desirous to have M^r Walter Dulany speedily
provided for, Your Desire shall be a Law to me & if you
please M^r Ross shall immediately resign in his favour the
Naval Office of Potuxent for really I do not see any prospect
of my having it in my power to give him any thing else: upon
the Death of M^r Bullen One of the Commissioners of the
Loan Office in April last I offered him a Commission for that
place which is worth £90 Currency a year but as the Time
for sinking the Paper Money was so near he declined accept-
ing, whereupon I appointed M^r Brice who readily accepted it.
M^r Dan^l Dulany is at this time from home nor have I seen
him for some Time, when I do I shall deliver up the Bond he
lodged in my hands upon being appointed your Deputy at the
time he was about to embark for England. As I conclude
from what you say in that part of your long Letter which was
wrote the 10^th of March relative to Colonel Lloyd that you
are averse to making any Alteration with regard to the
Agency until His Lordships Return I have nothing more to
offer with regard to that matter for I doubt not but Col^o Lloyd
will continue to act untill he shall be displaced. Had neither
His Lordship nor you any Objection to M^r Ridout I do not
know but Col^o Lloyd who has for some years shewn &
expressed the greatest Regard for him might be induced to
resign in his favour rather than be displaced or at least to
exchange Offices with him but as I apprehend you have some
Exception to M^r Ridout I shall not interest myself again on
his behalf, or indeed on behalf of any one else, submitting the
Appointment entirely to His Ldp who may depend on this
that whether Col^o Barnes whom you seem to prefer or any
other Person be nominated in the stead of Col^o Lloyd I shall
be ready on my part to give the Agent my best Advice for
His Ldp's Service & will ever promote it to the utmost of my
power. Mess^rs Mason & Dixon having taken as many Obser-
vations as they thought necessary to ascertain the true Lati-

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