316 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

& I heartily rejoice with your Ldp on that Affairs being so
happily terminated, the Conduct of the Legislature of Great
Britain with respect to that Law & the Measures they are I
perceive pursuing in order to encourage the Trade of His
Majesty's American Subjects will I flatter Myself entirely
reconcile the latter to the Mother Country & eventually
increase her Wealth. Presuming your Ldp is anxious to
know what Progress has been made by the Commissioners
your Ldp authorized to call for & examine your Agents
Accounts I embrace this Opportunity to inform you that we
have not as yet finished that Business but it appearing to us
by his Account of 1764 & a Sketch of one for 1765 not yet
closed that a considerable Sum was in his hands we signified
to him that he must by this Conveyance remit your Ldp Bills
of Exchange for at least £8000 also have Bills ready to be
remitted for what more might appear due as soon as we can
ascertain the exact Ballance & your Ldp will see by the
inclosed Letter that Col^o Lloyd promises to make such Remit-
tance accordingly. It being thought expedient that the Agents
Account for 1764 be stated in a different manner than that
laid before us & that the Account for last year should also be
made up after the same manner we have given Col^o Lloyd a
short time to have it done & M^r Jordans Business calling him
in the Interval to Virginia he went thither last Wednesday
but will I expect return to Annapolis in about a Fortnight
when we shall again be attended by Col^o Lloyd's Clerk &
proceed with the Business. M^r Dulany is also obliged to be
from home at this time, but he & I shall I believe by this Ship
communicate to your Ldp our Sentiments on certain Matters
about which before M^r Jordan set off we agreed to write to
you so that your Ldp may consider the Letter as subscribed
by all of us. I intimated to your Ldp in one of my last Letters
that we had advertised the Sale of your Ldp's Mannour in this
County which was to have been this Day set up in Lots but a
Report which had been spread to this Effect " that the Man-
nour was by your Ldp's Father devised to Benedict Calvert
Esq^r & that he might & would hereafter eject such as should
purchase " & M^r Calverts answer to a Letter I with the advice
of the other Commissioners wrote to him on the Subject
determined us to postpone the Sale until your Ldp shall by
transmitting us Copies of the Settlements said to have been
heretofore made enable us to shew such as may be inclined to
purchase that however your Ancestors may have been restrained
your Ldp is at liberty to convey the Mannours & Reserves as
well as any Vacant Lands to be found in the Province & con-
sequently that we can by Virtue of your Ldp's Commission &
Instructions convey an indisputable Title. Your Ldp will see