402 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

Annual Charge of supporting the Establishment of this Prov-
ince distinguishing the different Funds & the different Ser-
vices to which those Funds are appropriated also of the
manner of Granting Lands in Maryland the Number of Acres
that have been from time to time granted & Amount of the
Quit Rents reserved thereon, to which Requisitions I have
returned an answer by the Packet from New York & now
take the liberty to transmit a Duplicate to Your Lordship not
knowing but you may be willing to peruse it. I have also in
answer to another Letter from the Secretary of State returned
him Copies of the Acts regulating All the Officers Fees in
this Province which Acts are to be seen in Bacons Edition of
our Laws the principal of them being generally known by the
Title of the Inspection Law. I embrace this Opportunity to
remit Your Lordship a Second of the Bill of Exchange for
£3 9 o the first of which was remitted the 11^th of March last,
& I likewise now remit Your Lordship the first of a Sett for
£27 which was lately paid the Commissioners in part as
appears by the Account accompanying it for a Parcel of a
Tract of Land in this County called Whites Plains which
parcel being 80 Acres was sold for £100 the first of this
Month when We went to the Sale of Ann Arundel Mannour
& the inclosed Bill is for One Fourth of said Purchase Money
& the six pence p^r Acre for Surveying &c. M^r Alien having
a few Days ago sent Me a Sett of the Rambler & a Sett of
the Adventurer which he told Me Your Lordship had been
pleased to recommend to his Care for me I take this earliest
Opportunity to make my Acknowledgments to Your Lord-
ship for that Instance of Your Regard, & at the same time I
hope Your Lordship will excuse Me for Intimating to you
that if Your Lordship will by giving Orders to Your Gardiner
for that purpose contribute to furnish with any Choice Fruit
Trees or Grape Vines a Garden I have laid out at my Farm a
few Miles from Annapolis I should be very thankful to Your
Lordship ; if I could get the true Rhenish Grape I should hope
within a few years to taste some Wine of that sort of my own
Growth, the Burgundy Grape does not Succeed well nor
any Grape that is ripe early & our Country Grape is too harsh
tho I am trying whether it cannot be improved & soften'd by
Cultivation, if Your Lordship can supply Me with some
Trees or Cuttings in the Fall either M^r Jordan's Partner or
M^r Anderson will readily forward them to Me for I am told
the former is to send a Ship to Virginia & the other One to
this Province about the Month of October. I am &c.