Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 383

I know not the proposal was not then approved of. As soon
as Books & Papers can without Risk of their receiving Injury
from Dampness of the Walls &c be deposited in the Office
that was built here last Summer for their Reception I shall
require the Agent to carry & lodge there all the Books &
Papers he has now in his possession relative to His Ldps
Mannours Quit Rents & other Estate of which he has had the
Management so that those who are impowered by His Ldp
for the future to examine & pass the Agents Account annually
may on Occasion have Recourse to them. M^r Tasker having
when we were preparing to build the Agents Office offered to
sell His Ldp a small Piece of Ground for the purpose in a
convenient part of the Town We accepted his Offer so that if
His Ldp pleases the Ground which had been purchased of
M^r Carroll for that End might be reconveyed to that Gentⁿ &
for that Reason I have inclosed You a Copy of the Deed by
which you may draw one for His Ldp to execute or a Power
of Attorney authorizing his Agent here to reconvey the said
Ground upon M^r Carrolls returning the purchase Money.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis the 11^th March 1767
My Lord
As I have communicated to M^r Hamersley to be laid before
your Ldp a Resolution the Gentlemen of the Council have
come to in Consequence of the Agreement made between the
two Houses last Session about carrying before His Majesty in
Council the Dispute that had so long subsisted between them
concerning the Clerk of the Councils Salary & have also
transmitted him Copies of some Letters that lately pass't
between some Gentlemen of the Lower House M^r Dulany's
chief Clerk & Himself I shall not trouble your Ldp with a
Letter on those Subjects but write this in order to inclose your
Ldp the Copy of One which I have just received from the
Earl of Shelburn requiring among other Things a particular
Account of the several Tracts of Land which have been
granted here since the first Settlement of the Province the
Time when & person to whom each Grant was made, a
Requisition which It is absolutely impossible for me to comply
with immediately nor can I indeed do it at all without a con-
siderable Expence, but such answer as I can give I shall take
the liberty to transmit your Ldp in order to be delivered.
Inclosed is a Memorandum of Remittances made by Col^o
Lloyd since June last according to his Account now before
your Commissioners, the Arrears still outstanding amount to
a considerable Sum but as Suits are & must be brought against

Letter Bk. IV