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upon the Glorious Event, I am Persuaded Maryland will not
be the last with their Address.
The British Legislature, not Contented with repairing the
past injury, have, from the Overflowings of their Parental
Tenderness, Dedicated a great part of the Session to the
Considⁿ of the State of the Colonies, (much more I am per-
suaded than has been done by all the Governm^t here together
for half a Century past) the fruits you will find in the Enclosed
Votes: and, If Ripened into Laws before the session Closes,
which will be about a month longer, I shall do myself the
pleasure of sending you the several Acts, as soon as they
receive the Royal Assent.
I can only repeat the satisfaction it will give me to render
the least acceptable Service to the Province: Let the means
be Suggested by your Excellency, I will Promote them to the
utmost of my power: Your obliging Prefers of Service can
only be Answered in the same way, and it must be left to time
to demonstrate my sincerity by Actions, rather than Expres-
sions. In the Interim I shall still Crave leave to Subscribe
myself with great regard and esteem.
Hon^d Sir. Your Excellencys
Serj^ts Inn London Most Obed^t Hble Serv^t
15. May 1766. Hugh Hamersley.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Copy of a Letter to Lord Baltimore Dated Annapolis 15^th
May 1766
My Ld
I have for some time waited impatiently for an Opportunity
to transmit by some Vessel bound directly to London Copies
under the Great Seal of the several Acts of Assembly to
which on Your Ldp's Behalf I gave my Assent during the two
last Sessions of Assembly but no such Opportunity has
offered since the Acts were printed & may not perhaps for
these three Weeks I shall therefore that your Ldp might see
what Acts they were herewith transmit a Copy of them by a
Vessel that is just on her Departure for Bristol & flatter
myself they will all meet with your Ldps Approbation. In the
Letters I address't to your Ldp & M^r Calvert last Winter I
inform'd you that an entire Stop had been then put to all
Business & that the Courts of Law except in two or three of
the most distant Counties were shut up: in this situation
Things remained till the Provincial Court met here the I^st
Day of April agreeable to their Adjournment when a Number
of People who were assembled here from different parts of
the Province impatient at the Provincial Office being so long

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