406 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Resigning his Employ as soon as the Commissioners make
their Report, and therefore Civil Parting may be best on both
sides. But his Lordships great dependance is upon a better
regulation of the office for the future, and as the Commis-
sioners must, in the Course of their Enquiry, have Traced
every Evil up to its Source, he depends upon their making
such an Establishment and Salutary Adjustment of so
Important an Office in all its branches, as will meet all past
Evils, and effectually exclude all future Irregularitys and Mis-
chiefs, to which a separation of so Extensive a Department
cannot but Contribute, as well as the Repository so lately
Built. Lord Baltimore is not now in Town, but I hope by
next Opportunity to send you his Power for Re-Conveying
Carrol's Land.
His Lordship Defers entirely to the Commissioners Judg-
ment in taking the Quit rents out of the Sheriffs hands, and
Farming them to others who can attend to them, If the
reasons which led M^r Calvert to the former measure are
found Insufficient, or better means offer.
I am extremely honoured with the Nomination by your
Excellency and the Gentlemen of the Upper House of myself
to be their Agent on the Appeale threatned by the Lower
House ; and they may be assured, If the business Proceeds, of
my giving it every possible attention. I have already secured
them the best Counsel in S^r Fletcher Norton and M^r Yorke,
in which the very able Gentlemen who are Charged with
preparing the requisite materials will have the Satisfaction of
seeing them Managed by the Ablest advocates this Country
Affords. But I am much Inclined to think from the Inactivity
of the Agent, and the 111 success, as we hear, of the Lottery,
that the Lower House will be better advised than ever to
think of Prosecuting their Appeale. The Strange Irregularity
of their late Proceeding with respect to M^r Dulany looks very
much like the seeking a pretence to Drop it, and save appear-
ances. The Proceedings of the Council and M^r Dulany upon
that Occasion are much approved by his Lordship, and will, I
am Confident, be supported, If, after an Appeale Exhibited,
any application should be grounded upon it, and I am very
happy to be already fnrnished with so good Materials to meet
such an application, If ever it be made. Till some Step be
taken here, it will be equally difficult to Conjecture when all
or any of these matters will be brought to a Determination,
or at what expence. The latter necessarily depending upon
the extent and length of the Proceedings ; and I shall not be
very willing to have any Business bro't to a Hearing, without
a previous Communication to the Upper House, who may
perhaps either have an opportunity of answering what shall