384 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

several of the Receivers &c in whose hands it remains the
whole cannot be remitted your Ldp for some time. I am
very sorry & indeed surprized to find by your Ldps Letters of
the 25^th & 28^th Sept that my Brother Philip had not then
waited on your Ldp with the Money I desired him to pay to
your Ldp's Order instead of paying it to Captain Eden as I
had desired him to do by a former Letter, lest the Letter in
which I desired him to do so should have miscarried I now
take the liberty to inclose an Extract of it upon the Receipt of
which I am confident he will immediately wait on your Ldp &
make payment according to my Desire unless he should be
absent out of the Kingdom in which Case I beg the favour of
your Ldp to send the inclosed to my Brother William. With
the utmost Respect I am &c.

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of 11^th Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated Annapolis 11^th
March 1767.
Sir
In the Letters I addressed to His Ldp & you the 7^th & 8^th
of December last I advised you of the Agreement the two
Houses had come to about submitting to the Determination of
His Majesty in Council the Dispute concerning the payment
of the Clerk of the Councils usual Salary & intimated to you
that in order to prosecute the Appeal on their part the Lower
House had before they broke up opened a Subscription ; they
likewise Resolved to set a Lottery on foot for raising the Sum
of £1000 in Aid of the Subscription & several of the Members
undertook to act as Managers. You will see by the Scheme
published in the inclosed Gazette what Arts they practize to
draw peoples Money out of their Pocketts but I am told that
the Managers would nevertheless have been greatly puzled to
get off their Tickets had not the Pennsylvanians bought whole
Books of them & the Subscriptions it seems come in very
slowly. They will however I suppose raise Money enough by
one means or another to prosecute the Affair & therefore
it is necessary that the Gentlemen of the Upper House should
prepare to make their Defence, or support before His Majesty
the Points they have contended for, particularly that the Clerk
of the Councils Salary shall be hereafter paid in the same
manner it hath hitherto been. In order that the Members of
the Upper House might have an Opportunity of consulting
what Steps it might be proper for them to take I desired them
to meet here as yesterday & all of them (except M^r Chamber-
laine M^r Goldsborough & Col^o Hooper who were prevented
by Sickness & therefore desired to be excused) attending