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two other Parcels of Collington Mannour that have been sold
viz One Tract of 1341/2 Acres & the other containing sixty
eight Acres as your Ldp will see by the inclosed Account of
Sales. One of the purchasers to make up the Sum due from
him paid five shillings & three pence in Cash which must for
the present remain in my hands as it would not be worth
while to remit a Bill for so small a Sum. I am My Ld &c.
[Sharpe to Hamersley.]
Copy of 8th Letter to Mr Hamersley. Dated Annapolis 20th
Novr 1766. transmitted by Capt Montgomerie.
Dr Sr
The Day on which His Ldps Mannour in Kent County is to
be put up to Sale agreeable to our Advertisement being at
hand Mr Dulany Mr Jordan (who returned two Days ago from
Virga) & I are just going over the Bay to attend the Sale so
that I have not Time to write a long Letter but as there is a
Ship here ready to sail for London I embrace the Opportunity
to inform you that the two Houses of Assembly have at
length this Morning agreed to pass the Journal of Accounts
& pay off the Publick Debt with some kind of Bills of Credit
emitted on our Fund in the Bank & I presume it will be done
on some such Plan as I communicated to you about a year
ago. The Affair of the Clerk of the Council's Salary is
settled in this Manner that a Sum equal to his Claim shall be
paid into the hands of the Treasurers & by them let out on
Interest until the Dispute can be carried home before the
King & Council & be there determined. Should it be deter-
mined in favour of the Clerk's Claim (which is supported by
precedents ever since the Revolution) the Sum deposited in
the Treasurers hands with the Interest accrued thereon is to
be immediately paid him, but should the Determination be
against the usual Allowance such Money is then to remain for
the use of the Province. As the two Houses could not agree
on the Point of Supporting two Agents the Lower House or
rather such as approve the measure for they were far from
being unanimous propose to raise by Subscription a Sum for
the purpose of defraying the Expence of the Appeal but I am
apt to think they will be sick of it before it can be brought to
an Issue. That you may be thoroughly prepared I shall as
soon as possible furnish you with authentic Copies & Extracts
from the Records of the Precedents the Upper House rely on
& also ample Evidence that the Fines & Forfeitures have never
been applied to such purpose, for the Point the Lower House
will insist on is that the Clerk of the Council ought to be paid
out of those incidental Revenues which we insist are as much
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