300 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Original.

Hamersley the Secretary aforesaid having Signifyed his Desire
that the said Daniel Dulany may be Continued in the Exer-
cise of the said Office of Deputy Secretary in like manner as
he so Exercised the same at the time of the Death of the said
Caecilius Calvert.
These are therefore to Signify to you my Will and Pleasure
That the said Daniel Dulany Do continue to hold exercise
and enjoy the said Office of Deputy Secretary within my said
Province untill my further Will and Pleasure to be to you
Signifyed in that behalf And that he do so hold exercise and
enjoy the same under and by Virtue of the Commission or
Authority already by you Issued to him for that purpose or
under and by Virtue of such other Commission or Authority
to be by you issued for that purpose as you shall Judge neces-
sary and expedient in that behalf and in like manner as hath
been heretofore Accustomed.
Given under my Hand and lesser Scale at Arms this
Fifteenth Day of May in the Sixteenth year of my Dominion
of the said Province and in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand Seven hundred and Sixty Six.
FB.
Counter Signed by his Lord^ps Command
Hugh Hamersley
Secretary.

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]
Sir—
I am favoured with yours of the 11^th of Feb^ry and much
obliged to you for the friendly part you take in the honor
done me by Lord Baltimore. M^r Dulany has likewise wrote
his Lordship and me very fully upon the Subject of my
Appointment, and I have by his Lordships direction given
him such an Answer as I hope will content him, it being the
furthest from both our Intentions to do any thing the least
disagreable to him, and, tho we have unfortunately missed our
way, the offence has arisen from what was intended as a mark
of the greatest regard for him, and he will excuse me when I
say he himself was the Instrument to mislead us.
In Appointing me his Lordship had no other view than to
fill up the Vacancy occasioned by M^r Calvert's death, with a
desire that the Adm^ron of the Office within the Province sh^d
Continue in the same hands, and be Exercised in the manner
it had been till that time. As Exetor to M^r Calvert he found
M^r Calverts Appointment, which I well know was drawn
by your late Brother, and from thence he directed my own to
be transcribed, with the Omission only of the ordinary