186 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 134^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis 15^th
Dec^r 1764. transmitted by Captain Cockey.
Sir
My last Letter was dated the 13^th of Nov^r & transmitted by
Capt Curling in a Ship of Mess^rs Hanburys. I have not been
since favoured with any from you but now write to advise you
of some things that have happened here since that time. In
the first place as it is now three years since the last general
Election Writs have been lately issued for another Election of
Representatives throughout the Province & in Consequence
thereof there have been already Elections in most of the
Counties, from some of which will be returned One or two new
Members but in general the new Lower House of Assembly
will consist of the same Persons that composed the former.
As there is no Business that requires the Assembly's meeting
before the Summer I have by Advice of the Council this Day
issued Proclamations proroguing them to the second Monday
in May next when I suppose it will be expedient to have a
Session. M^r Bordley the late Commissary General having
after a long Indisposition died about a Week ago I thought it
my Duty in pursuance of His Ldp's Pleasure signified by one
of his Instructions dated the 8^th of Oct. 1761 to make an Offer
of the Office to M^r Charles Goldsborough on Condition he
would come & reside in Annapolis to superintend it & upon
his expressing his Willingness to accept on those Terms a
Commission was made out for him & he has since come over
& qualified. As I have in this acted on a Principle of doing
what seemed to be most agreeable to His Ldp's pleasure &
presume no one will object to M^r Goldsboroughs Capacity for
the Execution of that Office I flatter myself His Ldp will con-
firm the Appointment, Upon my intimating to M^r Golds-
borough that he must as his Predecessors had done make you
a Remittance of One hundred pounds a year during his Con-
tinuance in the Office he promised to send his Correspondent
in London an Order to make punctual Payment to your Order
& I presume he will himself write & tell you so by some early
Opportunity. By my Letter to His Lordship I have taken the
Liberty to recommend Col^o Henry Hooper the late Speaker
of the Lower House of Assembly to the Seat in the Council
which is become Vacant by M^r Bordley's Death: All I shall
say of this Gentleman is that he has during many years acted
an upright moderate Part in the Lower House of Assembly &
has the Reputation of being the best Justice of Peace in the
Province & tho his Age made him decline coming again to
undergo the fatigue of sitting constantly as Speaker in the