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the Question or shall choose to do so I should be much obliged
to you if His Ldp approves thereof for sending me by the
earliest Opportunity such Opinion & the State on which it
may be given so that I may have something to shew in sup-
port of His Ldp's Claim. I am &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Copy of a Letter to Lord Baltimore Dated the 29^th May 1766.
My Lord
I now do myself the honour to acknowledge the Receipt of
your Ldps Favour dated the 23^d of Feb^ry together with the
Picture & Arms you have been pleased to send us for the
Council Chamber &c & the Box of Plate your Ldp is so kind
as to make me a Present of, & which as a gracious Testimony
of your Ldp's Approbation & Regard I accept with the most
sensible pleasure & Gratitude M^r Jordan having arrived here
on Saturday the 17^th Inst. produced to M^r Dulany & Me on
the Monday following the Commission & Instructions by
which your Ldp is pleased to impower Us to call for examine
& adjust the Accounts of your Agent & Receiver General, to
fix on, & prescribe a Mode & Regulation for examining &
adjusting the Agents Accounts annually for the future & also
to authorize us to sell & convey all your Ldps Mannours &
Reserved Lands. After perusing your Ldps Commission we
join'd in a Letter to Col^o Lloyd advising him thereof & desired
him to come over & lay his Accounts & Vouchers before us
agreeable to your Ldps Requisition, likewise to furnish us
with the Plats Rentals & all other Documents in his possession
relative to the Mannours & Reserved Lands that we may be
well informed how they were' respectively circumstanced &
advertise the Sale of them accordingly. In answer to our
Letter he told us that it was absolutely impossible for him to
attend us himself immediately by reason that his Wife lay
dangerously ill but that as soon as his Clerk who happened to
be then absent should return he would order him to attend us
with all the Accounts Vouchers & Papers we required, but as
he is not yet come over we have by another Letter press't him
to an immediate Compliance with our Requisition & as soon
as the Books & Papers shall be brought hither we shall pro-
ceed to examine & adjust the Accounts agreeable to your
Ldp's Requisition & Intention. Having already received a
correct Plat & Rent Roll of Ann Arundel Mannour from M^r
Thomas the present Steward We have ordered an Advertise-
ment to be inserted in this Week's Gazette notifying that we
shall attend at a House near that Mannour on the 14^th of July
to sell to the best Bidders the several Tenements into which

Letter Bk. IV