Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 391

since our Mercantile People have now money for the purposes
of Trade while those in the neighbouring Colonies are stinted
as it were for Want of a Circulating Medium & if necessity
makes them receive & circulate our Money they must in fact
pay us Interest tor it as in that Case we are to them in the
nature of Bankers, much will depend on our Trustees Mess^rs
Hunt & Hanburys discharging their Trust with punctuality by
investing in Capital Stock every Dividend as soon as it is
payable at the Bank & His Ldps obliging Answer to the joint
Address of the two Houses which 1 shall not fail to commu-
nicate to them leaves no room to doubt but they will in Case
of any neglect be reminded of their Duty. I am very glad
His Ldp approves of the -Method fallen on to put an End to
the Dispute between the two Houses about the Clerk of the
Councils Salary. According to the Advertisement inserted
several Weeks in the Maryland Gazette the Lottery set on
foot by the Lower House for raising £1000 Currency towards
defraying the Expence of an Appeal to the Crown on their
parts was to have been drawn the 25^th of last Month, it is not
however yet drawn whether by reason of the Tickets not
being sold or in Consequence of any Intimation from their
Agent M^r Garth I do not learn but it seems some of the Lead-
ers have complained that the People have not shewn such a
liberal or patriotic Spirit as they expected would have been
manifested on such an Occasion, should not Money enough
be contributed or raised by their Lottery to defray the
Expence of an Appeal they are you know already furnished
with a sufficient Excuse for dropping the Affair viz that the
Committee was not permitted to have Access to the Records
which would have decided the matter in their favour. On my
informing the Gentlemen of the Council who reside in this
place that you have retained M^r York & S^r Fletcher Norton
on behalf of the Upper against our Lower House of Assembly
they expressed much Satisfaction thereat being of Your
Opinion that you could not have entrusted their Affairs in
better hands. I shall according to His Ldp's Desire herewith
transmit you some of the Gazettes in which the Advertise-
ment respecting the Liberty Lottery as it is called is inserted.
As there have at different times been many Lotteries set on
foot here for different purposes such as building Wharffs &c
& there is no Act of Assembly forbidding them it would have
been in vain for the Government to have opposed the Draw-
ing of this, indeed any opposition of that sort would have
answered no other End than to rouze the People to promote
it & to contribute freely. It seem'd to give every Body here
sensible Pleasure that the Addresses to His Majesty trans-
mitted by the two Houses of Assembly in this province were

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