338 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

Advantage to Him & am glad therefore He has determined
to wave it or at least to leave the Matter entirely to the two
Houses of Assembly. In a Letter I have address't to His
Ldp & shall transmit by this Opportunity I have informed
him of my having been obliged by reason of the Death of M^r
Brice Chief Justice of our Provincial Court & two of his Associ-
ates of issuing a new Commission by which I have added five
other Gentlemen of good Abilities & unexceptionable Charac-
ter to the four surviving Justices. I have also represented to
His Ldp the Expediency of his filling up the two Vacancies
which are made in the Council by the Death of M^r Key & Col^o
Henry & have taken the liberty to mention several Gentle-
men to His Ldp as worthy to be appointed. I have likewise
reminded His Ldp of two Petitions I transmitted to M^r Calvert
in a Letter dated the 20^th June 1765 relative to two Lots
which had become Escheat one of them in this Place & the
other in Baltimore Town, which the Agent it seems on
Account of their being in Towns is restrained by one of His
Instructions from selling without a special Order ; It being
His Ldps Interest that they should be sold as soon as pos-
sible I beg the favour of you to apply for His Instructions
concerning them & let me know his pleasure as soon as pos-
sible. The two Surveyors who came from England to run the
Boundary Lines under the Direction of the Commissioners
having at last described them all it is agreed that the Stones
which were imported last Summer shall be immediately set
up in the Presence of a Commⁿ on each Side & that there
shall be then a general Meeting in order to draw up a State
of our Proceedings & return the same to the High Court of
Chancery according to the Tenor of the Articles of Agree-
ment & our Commission, but as the setting up the Stones &
the Drawing such State afterwards might take up so much
time as to make it impossible for us to transmit the same
before the last of Decem^r next when our last Comⁿ will expire
I submit it to you whether it will not be necessary that a new
Commission be sent us, which indeed must be the Case if His
Ldp & the Proprietors of Penns^a have agreed that the East &
West Line shall be next Summer extended to the Western-
most Limits of Penns^a for it now stops at Savage Mountain a
Ridge of the Allegany not more than five or six Miles West-
ward of Fort Cumberland. As I shall address another Letter
to you by a Ship that will sail hence very shortly I will not
trouble you with any thing more at present but only add that
I remain with the greatest Esteem & Regard D^r S^r