Correspondence of Governor Sharpe, 281

Colonies a Liberty of Importing Foreign Melasses on Pay-
ment of one Penny p^r Gallon Duty: but of these yo^r Excellency
shall hear further in due time.
I have lately wrote yo^r Excellency, by Lord Baltimore's
Order, in favor of M^r Alkyn, at the recommendation of Lord
Dartmouth, but it is not his Lordship's Intention, that it should
Interfere with his Predilection to M^r Alien for whom he
entertains a great Personal regard & ffriendship.
M^r W^m Halliday has wrote M^r Calvert a very Civil Letter
declining the seat offered him at the Council Board.
On Reviewing the late Instructions sent by M^r Jordan for
the future adjustment of the Receiver General's accounts, His
Lordship finds he has, contrary to his Intentions, omitted the
Judges of the Land Office. I therefore now enclose your
Excellency an Additionall Instruction on that head, adding
those Gentlemen to the Persons before named for a Standing
Committee of Acco^ts and Constituting the Majority of the
Number a Quorum. They have lately given his Lordship
Intelligence of a supposed escheat by the death of Coll.
Boquet, upon an Imaginary Intestacy, tho' by a Subsequent
account it seems there is a will forthcoming, the Validity of
which must be examined, & far be it from his Lordship to do
a harsh thing. But If it should appear he has a right, those
Gentlemen are referred to your Excellency to adjust the
proper allowance to the Discoverer & to Determine whether
to reserve, or in what other way to dispose of the Escheated
Lands for the Lord Proprietarys benefit
Lord Baltimore has reced, with great pleasure your Excel-
lencys account of the Progress made by the Commissioners
in running the Lines & hopes the new Commission, enlarging
the time for another year, will have come to hand long before
this reaches you. Your Excellency gives hopes of a final
Completion of this great work within that time, in which his
Lordship presumes you mean to Include the continuance of
the Line for the remaining 150 Miles further, to the Western
Limits of Pensylvania as described by its Charter, which his
Lordship is equally desirous w^th Mess^rs Penn to have ascer-
tained, upon that presumption, whilst the Business is in hand,
His Lordship approves the setting up the Stones sent last
Summer in the Tangent Line, & has directed me to acquaint
you that the remaining Stones are ready to be shipped off.
Captⁿ Love, who Proposes to take his Departure the begin-
ing of April, is to be with me in a few days to settle the
ffreight and Carriage of them. Mess^rs Mason & Dixon write
that they Judge the Line will Pass about 2 miles to the North
of the River Potowmack.