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Session of Parliament and that your Excellency would be par-
ticular in seeing that the Chief Distributor do appoint under
Distributors in every proper Town and Place within your Gov-
ernment, and that each of the said under Distributors be well
supplied with Stamps for all Demands, and that your Excel-
lency would be very attentive to the Detection of any Frauds
which may arise in this Branch of His Majesty's Revenues;
and in Case it shall have happen'd that any Chief Distributor
residing in your Government hath not given Security for the

due Execution of hie Office, that Your Excellency will take

Care that he do forthwith execute his Bond for the same,
which Bond when executed, your Excellency is desired to
return to the Stamp Office. My Lords so much depend upon
your Attention to the public Service, that they cannot doubt
of receiving Information from your Excellency in Case any
remissness in the Execution of the Office of the Chief Distri-
butor within your Government, or other Mismanagement or
Abuses whatsoever shall appear to you. I am
your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant
Treasury Chambers Cha. Lowndes
14^th Septemb^r 1765

Letter Bk.III

[Sharpe to Gage.]

To General Gage 23^d Sept^r 1765.
Sir
I have this afternoon received the Letter Your Excellency
was pleased to favour me with the 16 Inst inclosing an Order
for a Detachment of a hundred Men of the Royal Highlanders
to march hither from Pittsburg as soon as I may think it expe-
dient to forward Your Excellency's order & March Rout to
the Commanding Officer at that Post. I am much obliged to
Your Excellency for both Your Letter & the order & if I find
it necessary to dispatch the latter to Pittsburg I shall instantly
advise you thereof so that the Contractors Agents may have
timely notice & be prepared to victual them on their March
which I suppose they will easily do as the Country every
where between this place & Fort Ligonier abounds with all
kinds of Provisions, but as it might be doubted whether
the Number of Men mentioned in Your Excellency's Order
would be sufficient to protect the stamp' t Paper was it to be
landed here or to quell any Insurrection which might arise
on the Occasion I am not yet certain whether I shall forward
it or not in case I can have the Paper secured on board one of
His Majesty's Ships & no farther Violence should be com-
mitted here. I am very sorry to find that the Indignity offered
M^r Hood & account of the Proceedings of the Mob that pulled