250 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

Determination. You shall then hear further from me, and I
hope we shall meet with mutual Congratulations.
I am
D^r S^r
Your Excellencys
Serj^ts Inn Most Obed^t & Ever Faithfull Hble Serv^t
20 Dec^r 1765. Hugh Hamersley

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of [145^th] Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis 21^st
Dec^r 1765 transmitted by Capt Clarkson.
Sir
In the Letter I address't to you the 11^th of last Month I
informed you that the Assembly was then sitting but had not
compleated any Business having been mostly employed in
examining the State of the Loan Office & burning the Paper
Money which had been heretofore issued & was in pursuance
of the Laws that put it into Circulation to be now destroyed.
I also communicated to you what I then knew of the Proceed-
ings of Mess^s Mason & Dixon in running the East & West
Line & intimated to you that I intended to go to the Meeting
of the Commissioners which was appointed to be at York
Town in Pennsylvania the 16^th of that Month. The Surveyors
having attended & produced their Minute Books we found
upon examining them that they have extended the said East
& West Line upwards of 114 Miles from the Stone set up to
denote the North East Corner or Extremity of this Province
& they apprehend it must be run about 150 Miles farther if
they are to continue it to the Western Limits of Pennsylvania
as described by its Charter. The Winter Season being so far
advanced that bad Weather & Snow might be daily expected
in that Mountainous Country where the Surveyors broke off
they could not proceed on that Line again at this time where-
fore the Commissioners agreed to have the Boundary Stones
that were sent hither last Summer by your Order immediately
set up in the Tangent Line & that one Commissioner on each
Side together with the Surveyors should go to see them fixed
properly, so that we shall have nothing more to do with that
Line & I hope the next Summer if the other Stones & a new
Commission arrive in Time will bring the whole Affair to a
Conclusion. I need not I suppose remind you that the last
Commission expires the 31^st Day of this Month. The
Assembly having broke up last Friday I now inclose you
the Titles of the several Acts that pass't during the Session
all which I flatter myself will as soon as they can be trans-
mitted meet with His Ldps Approbation. As one of them is