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(enumerated Goods excepted) to the best Market they can
find is the most likely way to prevent the Inhabitants of
North America from going into Manufactories. The Amend-
ment you say was made in the proposed Indemnity Bill will not
I dare say affect many People in this Province, & as good
Order is at last happily restored among us, I hope nothing
will hereafter happen to interrupt it. I am &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 19^th July 1766
My Ld
In the Letter I did myself the honour to address to your
Ldp the 14^th Inst I intimated to you that I expected M^r
Dulany & I (M^r Jordan being gone to Virginia) should by the
same Conveyance join in a Letter to your Ldp but as I now
find that M^r Dulany who went about a Fortnight ago to Balti-
more County cannot return hither before the Ship sails I think
it my Duty tho alone to represent to your Ldp what we
should I suppose have jointly communicated to your Ldp
were M^r Jordan & M^r Dulany also present. I am then in the
first place to inform Your Ldp that since we advertised the
Sale of Ann Arundel Mannour Your Ldp's Commission to
Myself M^r Dulany & M^r Jordan has been very much the Sub-
ject of Conversation & with this M^r Calverts Claim or Preten-
sions to that Mannour have been frequently brought on the
Carpet which has been stated to arise from the Will of Your
Ldps Father & said to be invalid because the Mannours were
entailed by some Settlements: upon this State the question
has been asked if the late Lord could not devise because only
Tenant in Tail by what Limitation or means has the present
Lord Baltimore an Estate in Fee-simple or how does His
Power to sell arise ? Now as we are not possessed My Ld of
Copies of the Settlements supposed to have been made by
Your Lordship's Ancestors I need not I presume observe to
Your Ldp that if when we proceed to sell the Mannours Per-
sons inclined to purchase should press us to give them satis-
faction on these Points we must wave it, which would natu-
rally make People afraid to bid, at least designing Men in
order to lessen the Price of the Land offered to Sale would
probably insinuate to others that Your Ldp's Right to sell the
Fee-simple was doubtful. In order to obviate such & any
other Objections which may be started the Commissioners
hope Your Ldp will Order Copies of any Family Settlements
which have been at any time made to be transmitted to them
as soon as possible. If Your Ldp should also think fit to
authorize us by a further Instruction to insert a Clause of

Letter Bk. IV