Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 241

at the Meeting of the Commissioners at York Town the 16^th
Inst where Mess^rs Mason & Dixon are to attend us. I have
not for some time received any Letter from those Gentlemen
but am informed by some who have been with them on the
Line that having continued it so far as the North Mountain
they desisted about a fortnight ago in order to take an Obser-
vation at that place. The Line they have now described has it
seems crossed or intersected the Temporary Line several
Times & the Spot where they broke off is supposed to be
about half a Mile Southward of what was reputed to be the
Temporary Line in that part of the Country for the Temporary
Line was not you know ever continued so far Westward.
Capt Shelby who lives near the North Mountain & went with
Mess^rs Mason & Dixon to the Top of it in order to view the
Course of Potowmack says they assured him the Line when
continued will not any where intersect that River & that they
apprehended it would run at least eight or ten Miles to the
Northward of Fort Cumberland. I shall take the liberty to
send you inclosed two Letters that I lately received from Col^o
Lloyd, in one of which you will observe he absolutely refuses
to submit his annual Accounts to the Examination of the
Gentlemen appointed by His Ldp's Instruction to examine
them & will rather resign his Office than continue to hold it if
his Compliance with that Instruction is insisted on, you will
therefore be pleased to communicate the Substance of his
Letters to My Lord so that he may know the Colonels Reso-
lution & take such Measures thereupon as he shall think
proper. With the Letters you will find a Plan of the Office
proposed to be built & w^ch shall be set about as early in the
Spring as Brick Work ought to be done so that there may be
at least a proper Repositary for the Reception of the Rent
Rolls & other Books & Papers relative to His Ldp's Revenue
& private Estate in the Province. The Letter you were
pleased to favour me with the 3^d of July last was delivered to
me two Days ago by M^r Howard who is going down to
officiate in S^t Mary's County where the Parish called All
Faiths is at present vacant, but as the Act of Parliament
directs that all Presentations &c to Livings shall be written on
Stampt Paper I cannot at present induct him. Should His
Ldp resolve to Visit his Province in Person which I find by
your Letter he has some thoughts of doing next Spring I beg
the favour of you to give me as early notice as you can that I
may have time to prepare for his Reception & to provide
myself with another Habitation for there is no other House in
Town where His Ldp can be so well accommodated as in that
where I now reside tho indeed this is far from being so con-
venient as I could wish.

Letter Bk. IV