Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 239

ern Department is said to be one that opposed that Act the
Inhabitants of the Colonies entertain very sanguine Expecta-
tions that it will be soon repealed & in the mean time seem
determined to oppose its being carried into Execution. The
Commissioners appointed to have the Dividing Lines run
between Pennsylvania & this Province being to meet at York
Town in Pennsylvania the 16^th of this Month in order to see
how Mess" Mason & Dixon have run the East & West Line
which it seems they have extended so far as the North Moun-
tain I propose as Nothing of Consequence is likely to come
before the Upper House very soon to be myself at the Meet-
ing. M^r Calvert having intimated to me in a Letter I had the
satisfaction to receive from him two Days ago that Your Ldp
has some Thoughts of taking a Voyage next Summer to
America in order to Visit Your Province 1 have desired him
in case Your Ldp should resolve to do so to inform me as
soon as possible when you may be expected here that I may
in time provide for Your Ldp's Reception & Accomodation;
If Your Ldp should undertake the Voyage I most sincerely
wish you a quick & agreeable passage: I shall rejoice to
receive Your Ldp here in good health, & in the mean time
remain Y^r Ldps &c.

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 143^d Letter to M^r Calvert dated the 11^th Nov^r 1765
Sir
In the Letters I addressed to His Ldp & yourself the 2^d &
3^d of last month I advised you of the necessity I had been
under of meeting the Assembly on the 23^d of Sept^r of the
Upper Houses having concurred with a proposal of the Lower
for sending three of their Members to New York & of my
having at the particular desire of the Lower House & by the
Advice of the Upper prorogued the Assembly to the 30^th of
last Month. During their Recess I received a Letter from
Capt Hawker of His Majesty's Ship Sardoine then at Anchor
in Delaware informing me that he had received from on board
the Ship Charlotte lately arrived in that River a quantity of
Stampt paper destined for this Province & should be ready
to deliver it to my Order. Having submitted his Letter to
the perusal of the Gentlemen of the Council & taken there
Advice thereon I on the 25^th of last Month returned the
Answer of which you will see a Copy inclosed, & when the
Assembly met the Beginning of this Month I submitted Captain
Hawkers Letter to their Consideration also & desired to know
what they would advise me to do in Consequence of the
Application made to me, for as I had the greatest reason to

Letter Bk. IV