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Inrollment being necessary to this Kind of Deed Your Ldp's
Agent might have Notice when an Alienation Fine should
become due & the End of Notice will be as well answered by
any other Kind of Conveyance if required to be inrolled or
recorded by a proper proviso to be inserted in the Grant from
Your Ldp within the Time limitted in the Case of Bargains &
Sales I presume Your Ldp will have no Objection to giving
the Purchasers a Latitude with respect to the Mode of Con-
veyance to be hereafter pursued by them. Having thus com-
municated to Your Ldp the Substance of what I presume the
other Commissioners were they present would join with me
in writing I submit the same to Your Ldp's Consideration, &
having nothing more to trouble Your Ldp with at this time I
remain with the utmost Respect &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Annapolis July 19^th 1766.
My Ld
I am this Moment favoured with the Letter Your Ldp did
me the honour to write to me the 13^th May inclosing one for
M^r Jordan which I shall not fail to deliver immediately upon
that Gentleman's Return from Virginia I will agreeable to
Your Ldp's pleasure now signified to Me write by this Oppor-
tunity to my Brother Philip & desire him to make the half
yearly Payment to Your Ldp's Order which he would other-
wise make to Captain Eden so that it might be at Your Ldp's
Disposal. Your Ldp having been pleased to recommend M^r
John Clapham to the Sheveralty of this County I shall as
soon as I am at liberty appoint him accordingly but think it
my Duty to inform Your Lordship that there is great Reason
to apprehend his being in very bad Circumstances will make
him very backward in paying Officers & others what he may
by Virtue of his Office be authorized to collect for them, not
to say any thing of Your Ldp's Quit Rents of which he must
also have the Collection. As he some time ago made Appli-
cation to Me for a Sheriffs Office & could have been recom-
mended by Gentlemen here I should have then served him if

the Circumstance I have mentioned hdd not deterred me for I

know the Inconvenience & ill Consequences of appointing
Persons much in Debt to the Office of Sheriff. Messs
Hanburys a few years ago gave him Credit for some Goods
but not choosing to do so any longer he was quite out of
Business until M^r Dulany M^r Jordan & I employed him to act
as our Clerk while executing Your Lordships Commission, if
Your Ldp upon Consideration of what I have said which pro-
ceeds from no Dislike to the Young Man should make Your

Letter Bk. IV