Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 331

In Consequence of an Application made by M^r Chew, one
of the Pensylvania Commissioners, to the Proprietors of that
Province, his Lordship has Concurred with them in Ordering
100 more Obelisks to be prepared for marking the Bound-
arys, which will be forwarded as soon as they can be finished.
The Preservation of these Provincial Boundarys must be of
Infinite Consequence to both Provinces, and, as such, your
Excellency is desired to Recommend to the Legislature to
make an adaequate Provision to prevent these Obelisks being
destroyed, or defaced, and to have them Visited, and proper
Returns made at stated periods. Mess" Penn Intend the like
recommendation to their Province.

I have Communicated to the Earl of Strafford vour Excel-
lencys return to his application, and, agreable to your offer,

shall trouble you again when favoured with his further Com-
mands. I have likewise mentioned to Lord Baltimore, and,
presume he will do the same to M^r Janssen, what your Excel-
lency is pleased to say respecting Mess^rs Charnier.
His Lordship was very happy to find M^r Jordan arrived,
and flatters himself, from the silence of his Commissioners,
that his different Commissions and Instructions were perfectly
agreable to them. It is their own fault, If they are not made
so. The favourable Opening of this necessary work seems to
promise a happy issue, and I have it particularly in charge
from his Lordship, again and again, to Call upon his Commis-
sioners to give it their most serious attention. M^r Jordan was
fully Instructed in his Lordships Sentiments before his Depar-
ture, but many things must occur to the other Commissioners,
which he cannot be supposed to know, and all the Commis-
sioners will please to Consider his Lordship as actuated by
the double motive of adjusting the past, and regulating the
future Economy of his Finances. What the present Arrange-
ments of his Revenues are, he seems little to know. What
they ought to be in time coming, he expects his Commission-
ers will Inform him, as the result of their Enquirys, and, as he
will be happy in adopting every Plan of future Regulation,
which shall come recommended from them, his Dependance
will be on your Excellencys attention to Enforce those Regu-
lations when made, for much, he is satisfied, remains to be
redressed. M^r Loyd has this day Remitted me Bills for
£8317 6 91/2 which his Lordship embraces as the first fruits
of his Commission, and is in daily expectation of receiving an
account of the progress you make, and the more frequent the
returns of your Proceedings are, the more agreable they will
be to him.
I have Laid your Excellencys several Instructions, which
you have been pleased to return me, before his Lordship, who