358 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

readily assent to it. During the Course of the Session
another Bill for Regulating Ordinaries & Obliging the Keepers
of Publick Houses to take out Lycences was framed in the
Lower House but being in some respect defective the Upper
House proposed Amendments & thereupon it fell to the
Ground, the Lower House considering it in the light of a
Money Bill & insisting that as such it was not to be altered
by the Upper even as to a single Word. On the same
Account a Bill for Lycencing Hawkers & Pedlars miscarried
& also a Bill of Gratitude (as it was stiled) to the Earl of
Chatham & Lord Camden to whom the Lower House exclud-
ing the Upper from all share thereof proposed to pay a Com-
pliment by procuring a Marble Statue of the former & a
picture of the latter to be disposed of as the Speaker of the
Lower House should think fit to direct. The Secretary of
State having directed me to inform the Assembly when they
should meet that His Majesty expected they would make
Compensation to any Person who might during the late Con-
fusion here have suffered any Loss for their Deference to Acts
of the British Legislature I accordingly communicated to them
General Conways Letter accompanied with such a Message as
I thought more likely to induce a Compliance on their part
than a more peremptory Requisition, & I have the satisfaction
to inform you that They thereupon pass't a Vote for giving
the Owner of the House that the Stamp Destributor was
fitting up for a Store & which for that Reason was pulled
down here by a Mob in the Night of the 2^d of Sept 1765 the
Sum of £100 a full Equivalent for the Damage done, & to a

Carpenter who had lost a Chest of Tools therein they also

Voted a Sum equal to their Value ; which two Sums are to be
paid in the same manner as other Publick Debts by Virtue of
the Act for Emitting Bills of Credit. As I shall at this time
send you a Copy of the Minutes of the Proceedings of the
Commissioners at their late Meeting on the Affair of the
Boundary Lines I take the Liberty to refer you to such
Minutes for Information of what has been already done & of
what was then farther agreed on ; if a new Commission
arrives early in the Spring I suppose the Line will be extended
to the utmost Limits of Pennsylvania & the whole Affair be
finished before the End of next Summer.

Letter Bk.III

[Sharpe to Shelburne.]

To Lord Shelburne. Annapolis 9 Decem^r 1766.
My Ld.
The two Letters your Ldp was pleased to write to me the
9 of Aug^st last having lately come to my hands I now do