318 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

transmit you other printed Copies of all those Acts. The
eight Laws pass't last Session are not yet printed but you may
expect to receive them very shortly. The Judges of the Land
Office were indeed premature in the Intimation they gave of
the late Brigadier Bouquets Tract of Land in this province
being escheatable for no sooner did an Account of his Death
reach Phil^a than a Will he had executed there in the presence
of some of the principal Gentlemen a few Days before he
embarked for Florida was produced by the Attorney General
M^r Chew with whom it had been deposited, & had he even
died intestate His Ldp could not have disposed of the Land
by reason it was mortgaged for a great part of the Money
which the General had borrowed to pay for it. You will see
by the inclosed Letter from Mess^s Mason & Dixon that they
had the 10^th of last Month extended their Line to the Eastern
Side of the Allegany Mountain a few Miles beyond Fort
Cumberland. Were they at this time to continue it beyond
that Mountain the Indians who usually hunt there would
probably take Umbrage at such a Step but what you hint of
His Ldp's Expectation & Desire that it might be extended to
the Westernmost Limit of Pennsylvania will when the Com-
missioners meet the 30^th Inst according to their last Adjourn-
ment be taken into Consideration. I shall when the Gentle-
men of the Council meet here again communicate to them
His Ldp's kind proposal relative to the Coinage of some
Copper Money for the use of the Province, but as there is not
such uses here for very small Coin as in England where
people daily go to Market to purchase Things of very little
Value there is not much Demand here for Copper Money &
I doubt whether it would be worth while to erect a Mint for
the purpose. We had before your Letter of the 22^d of March
came to hand received Copies of the two Acts of Parliament
which you therein sent me, but I am not on that Account the
less obliged to you & you have been so entertaining as well
as particular in communicating to me what had pass't in the
House of Lords on the Subject of those Acts that instead of
saying as you suppose Satis jam satis, your Letters pleased
me in proportion to their length & I once more return you
my hearty Thanks for them. I see by the last Phila^a Gazette
that the House of Commons have in a Committee pass't
several Resolves in favour of the American Trade which will
I hope not only reconcile the Colonies to the Mother Country
but in the End contribute to enrich Great Britain, for Nothing
is more evident than that while Harmony subsists between
them & Her they will remit to Her for Necessaries & Luxu-
ries whatever Specie they can acquire from Trading with
Foreigners & Liberty to export the produce of their Lands