Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 345

of non Complyance w^th the Agreement, the Principal has his
remedy open to Prosecute the recovery of the whole ffees, but,
if the Deputy is to take them for his own use, what becomes
of that remedy. However such is his Lordships Confidence,
as well as mine, in M^r Dulany that I have again hazarded a
new Deputation conceived in the terms proposed by your
Excellency, w^ch I hope will be more acceptable than the last.
I always thought the Legislature looked more to the Office
itself, than to the Person who Executed it, whether Principal
or Deputy, and that that was the reason of my Predecessors,
and almost every other Patentee, at the time they took
Security for their own particular reservation likewise requir-
ing a particular Stipulation for the due Execution of the
Office.
I have Communicated to his Lordship your Excellencies
opinion, that the burthen taken off from this Gentleman
cannot at present be well Imposed upon any others, and his
Lordship will take it into his Consideration. But he seemed
much surprised at the Intimation, that when it was known that
the Sum paid by M^r Dulany and his Predecessors was so
much reduced, the Commissary might likewise think himself
too much burthened ; Indeed his Lordship could scarce per-
suade himself that a business, to which so few Persons were
made privy, could be publickly known till a Letter received a
few Days afterwards from M^r Goldsborough Convinced him to
the contrary. However his Lordship has thought proper to
Cut the Matter short, and therefore desires you will Acquaint
M^r Goldsborough, that the Indulgence to M^r Dulany was not
founded in any apprehension that the office would not bear
the former reservation, but proceeded entirely from the Just
sense his Lordship Entertained of the Eminent Services
rendred him by M^r Dulany upon many occasions, his Sustain-
ing so often the Weight of the Assembly and Standing in the
Gap between him and his People, and his late Seasonable and
Elaborate Vindication of his Lordship's just rights against the
long menanced Encroachments, all which induced his Lord-
ship to Consider what was done as a Compliment due from
himself to that Gentleman. That it was meerly personal to
him, and should the Office hereafter come into other hands,
the whole of the former reservation at least will be again
expected. That his Lordship will not at this time weigh the
Comparative Value of the different Offices held under his
Authority. It is Sufficient the Assessment had been made,
and Confirmed by many years Experience and till now
Acquiesced in.
That It is not for his own Emolument, but the Support of
an Office Established for Carrying on the General Correspond-