Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 307

to emit a paper Currency for the payment of the Publick
Debt. The Commissions by which His Ldp & the Proprie-
tors of Pennsylvania have protracted the Time for running &
finishing the Dividing Lines to the last of December next
having arrived just before the Day to which the Commission-
ers had adjourned they met to give the Surveyors Instructions
to proceed & I suppose Mess^rs Mason & Dixon have by this
time extended the Line almost as far Westward as Fort
Cumberland. I observe what you intimate about the Royal
Society's Request to His Ldp with respect to those Gentlemen
& the Instruments & shall when they have finished the Lines
give Orders accordingly. You will see by an Extract of a
Letter which I inclose that I wrote last Summer to M^r Calvert
on the Subject which the Earl of Strafford mentions to you in
his Letter, if the Parties concerned are at a Loss whom to
appoint their Attorney here they may if they please address
the power to M^r Ridout my Secretary. I have call'd on all
the Sheriffs for a particular Account of the Forty p^r poll by
them paid last year to the several Rectors of Parishes through-
out the Province & as soon as I receive such their Accounts I
will transmit His Ldp such a State shewing the Anual Value
of all the parishes & the names of the Incumbents as I sent
M^r Calvert a year or two after my Arrival in the Province.
There are at this Time Livings vacant each of them worth
about £150 stg p^r Ann but I suppose the Oxford Gentleman
whom My Lord is desirous to serve would not think it worth
while to come to America for so small a Living, if any better
should become vacant I shall not fail to advise His Ldp or
you thereof. I know both the M^r Chamiers whom M^rJanssen
is pleased to recommend to His Ldp for Favour, one of them
lives as you say with Col^o Lloyd as a Clerk & the other keeps
a small Distillery in Baltimore Town, but how to serve either
of them I really do not know the Sheriffs Offices being the
only ones at my Disposal. M^r Jordan having arrived here last
Saturday sennight on the Monday following produced to M^r
Dulany & Myself His Ldp's Commission & Instructions
impowering & directing us to call for examine & adjust the
Accounts of his Agent & Receiver General to this time to
settle a Plan for the Annual Settlement of his Accounts here-
after & also to sell & dispose of His Ldp's Mannours &
Reserved Lands. After perusing the Commission & Instruc-
tions we wrote a Letter to Col^o Lloyd advising him of the
Powers confer'd on us & desired him to come over with his
Accounts as soon as possible at farthest within a week so that
we may without Delay proceed to Business & that we may be
acquainted with their respective Circumstances & be able to
advertise the Sale of the Mannours immediately we desired

Letter Bk. IV