202 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

The Acts are at length all printed & I now send you Copies
of the last of them, & as soon as some Copies of the Index &
Preface can be printed the Books will be bound & exposed to
Sale: as soon as they are 1 shall transmit you some of them
with the Great Seal appendant to be lodged in the Council
Office & delivered to the Board of Trade. I cannot send you
a better Impression than I sometime ago sent you of our Pro-
vincial Seal, which is so much worn that the Letters engraved
on it are almost effaced, I hope therefore you will be able to
instruct a Workman to make a new Seal by some of the
Impressions on Wax that were formerly transmitted, else in a
few years more we shall have no Great Seal at all & as I
sometime ago observed to you we have none at present fit to
seal the Writs & other Chancery Court Process. I expect
M^r Holliday will come over the Bay next Week to the
Adjourn'd Provincial Court when I shall advise him of His
Ldp's Instruction appointing him a Member of the Council &
will also acquaint Col^o Hooper the first Opportunity with the
Instruction in his favour you will see by one of the inclosed
Gazettes that on my Receipt of His Ldp's Instruction to
appoint M^r Walter Dulany Naval Officer of Potuxent I
ordered a Commission to be made out for him & superseded
M^r Ross who has not now any Office under the Govern^t
Doctor Scott having been long ago appointed Clerk of the
Council in pursuance as you may remember of His Ldp's
pleasure signified to me while he was on his Travels. I a few
Days ago prevailed on Col^o Lloyd to come over the Bay &
desired M^r Dulany the Judges of the Land Office & the
Attorney Gen^l to meet him at my House in order to see &
consider the Instruction His Ldp hath been pleased to give for
the Sale of several of his Mannours, & also of that respecting
the People settled on part of Talbot Mannour. When we were
met & the Instruction had been read by every Gentleman Col^o
Lloyd told us that altho the Instruction speaks of the Man-
nours therein specified as uncultivated waste Land yielding no
Profit & seems on that Account purely to direct the Sale of
them They were all tenanted, at least a considerable part of
each, & were leased on Lives many years before he had any
thing to do with them: he also produced Lists of the Tenants
on some of them & said he has regularly accounted for the
Rents received, which indeed do not amount to any consider-
able Sum, the Rents being very low, for the most part I think
not exceeding Ten shillings a year for a hundred Acres. The
only Reserve that I know of except those intended only to
prevent Incroachments being made on the Mannours is of the
large Tract of Land in Baltimore County which goes by the
Name of His Ldp's Reserve, & by what I can learn all the