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will therefore be expedient for your Ldp to fill up the Vacancies
& you would I am confident prefer Gentlemen of Abilities to
that Station I shall take the liberty to recommend to your Ldp
the present Attorney Gen" M^r Rob^t Goldsborough as the most
proper being next to M^r Holliday the most eminent practising
Lawyer at present in the Province & of a very good Character ;
& unless your Ldp should think that the Appointment of M^r
Walter Dulany at this time would throw too much Influence
& Weight into the hands of One Family he would also I
apprehend make a good Member being esteemed a Man of
Abilities. There is indeed One M^r Beal Bordley a Brother of
the late Commissary Gen^l & a Gentⁿ of very good Estate &
Abilities who some years ago practised the Law whom I
should recommend next to the Attorney Gen^l did he not hold
the Clerkship of Baltimore County but unless he was to give
up that to some other Person there might be some Impropriety
in appointing him tho the Business of the Clerks Office is in
fact transacted not by himself but his Deputy. Beside these
there is One M^r Henry Holliday in Talbot County a Brother
of the Lawyer a sensible & worthy Man; & M^r Plater in S^t
Mary's County Son of the Gentⁿ of that Name who was of the
Council about twelve years ago, a young Man much esteemed
& of good Estate, & one M^r Cha^s Graham in Calvert County
who has for many years lived there & as a Merch^t transacted
a. great Deal of Business with unblemished Reputation. In
my Lett^r of the 6 of Aug^t I informed your Ldp that the
Comm^rs appointed to sell the Mannours had advertised for
Sale on the 28^th of last Month two Parcels of Land lying in
this County w^ch having some years ago become Escheat had
been since leased out as the Mannours are leased, & had also
advertised for Sale on the 8^th of this Month your Ldps Man-
nour in Queen Anns County: It happened that on both Days
M^r Dulany was very ill in Baltimore County & could not
attend, the Land was therefore put up to Publick Sale by M^r
Jordan & Myself but there were no Bidders on either Day
except for one of the small Tracts in this County called
Abington containing 100 Acres for which the Bidders went so
far as 31^s sterling p^r Acre. We have this Day set up to Sale
what remains unpatented of a small Mannour in Prince Georges
County called Collington or Calverton of which we could only
sell 65 Acres at £65. 2. 6 & 200 Acres at £200. 10. The next
Mannour we have advertised for Sale is that in Kent County
which is very good Land & ought to sell well, but the Scarcely
of Money in the Province is at present so great that few
People have much to command, & the Tenants who if they
had Money could afford to give more for their respective
Tenements than any other Persons are in general very poor,

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