388 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

Person to whom each Tract was granted but as soon as it is in
my power I will transmit such Account, in the mean time I
entertain hopes that the Answer I have given to your Ldp
will prove satisfactory & I beg leave to assure your Ldp that
I have complied with His Majestys Requisition as far & as
speedily as was in my power. I am with the greatest Respect
y^r Ldps. &c.

[Sharpe to Shelburne.]

To Lord Shelburne. Annapolis 14 May 1767
My Lord
As I have in my Answer to your Ldp's Letter bearing Date
the 11^th Day of December last given as distinct & particular
an Account as was in my power of the Annual Charge of
supporting the entire Establishment of this Province the manner
of granting Lands here & the Fees & other Charges attending
Grants of Land It only remains for me to transmit your Ldp
in Compliance with the Requisition you are pleased to make
by your Letter of the 13^th of Jan^ry last an Account of the
established Fees of the different Offices in Maryland which I
cannot I apprehend do more distinctly than by inclosing a
Copy of the Act by which are regulated all the Fees to be
received by the several Officers except by the Collectors of
His Majesty's Customs & the Naval Officers whose Fees are
settled by an Act of Assembly that was made in the year
1717 of which I likewise inclose a Copy. With the greatest
Respect I am &c

Original.

[Macleane to Sharpe.]

Whitehall May 26^th 1767
Sir.
I am commanded by the Earl of Shelburne to transmit to
you Copy of His Majesty's Pardon for Thomas Sawyer con-
victed at Gloucester for Theft.
The Pardon was issued too late for the unhappy man who
had sailed from Bristol in the Ship Albion with other Con-
victs, consigned by Mess^rs Sedgely, Wilhouse & Randolph
Contractors at Bristol for the Transportation of Convicts, to
their Agents Mess^rs Thomas & William Ringolds in Mary-
land ; These Contractors have promis'd to write to their said
Agents to send back the said Sawyer. I am therefore in his
Lordships name to recommend it to you Sir, to use your good
Offices in behalf of Sawyer, that Mess^rs Ringolds may send
him properly back by the first good Conveyance.
I am,
Sir
Your most obedient
humble Servant
Horatio Sharpe Esq^r L. Macleane