382 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

Instruction for calling M^r Walter Dulany to the Council I
gave that Gentleman Notice thereof & he was qualified a few
Days afterwards. M^r D Dulany has not yet taken any Notice
to me of the new Commission you have sent him & as you do
not desire me to do so I have not said any thing to him about
it, whether M^r Goldsborough had heard or even yet knows on
what Terms M^r Dulany holds the Secretarys Office I cannot
tell but it was no Secret in the Province that M^r Dulany had
declared he would not pay out of the Fees more than £100
a year & I thought it likely enough that M^r Goldsborough
would thereupon endeavour also to reduce the Sum which had
been usually paid out of his Office but as you have signified
to him that his Request cannot be granted I believe he will
not trouble you again but punctually make you the usual
Remittance. Colonel Lloyd having come over the Bay the
20^th of last Month in order to attend the Commissioners
appointed by His Ldp to examine & settle his Accounts We
have been employed in that Business ever since but have not
yet gone thro the whole nor indeed could we close his Account
at present for want of some Returns from the County Clerks
& Stewards of Mannours not yet received he is therefore to
attend here again the Middle of this Month by which time M^r
Jordan will return from Virginia & then I hope we shall put a
finishing hand to this Business. We have however desired
Col^o Lloyd to remit His Ldp by this Conveyance the Ballance
which according to a rough Estimate we have made remains
in his hands & he has promised to do so. That His Ldp has
suffered Loss by the unmethodical Way in which Col^o Lloyd
has hitherto gone on his Indulgence to many who should have
been compelled to make punctual payments & his Attentions
being too much taken up by the Multiplicity of his own
Affairs must be apparent to the Col^o himself as well as to us ;
had he pursued the Instructions sent him in Octo^r 1761 in
Consequence of a Scheme I submitted to the Consideration of
My Lord & M^r Calvert he might have avoided the Chagrine
you say M^r Jordans Discourse seems to have given him, for
my own part I have declined talking at all about his Conduct
& thought it improper to write till the Commissioners could
examine his Accounts throughout & then join in a Report
which alone I conceived could give His Ldp satisfaction. If
the Mannours should not be sold we shall undoubtedly put
the Management of them upon a very different Footing than
they have hitherto been, & as the Agents Business alone with-
out that of keeping the Western Shore Rent Rolls will be
enough for one Person we shall I suppose Advise a Sepera-
tion of those Offices which indeed Col^o Lloyd himself pro-
posed to M^r Calvert five or six years ago but for what Reason