Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 415

As I presumed from His Ldps late Instruction in favour of
M^r Walter Dulany that he intended to shew him farther
Favour & his Brother the Secretary pressed Me to appoint
him Commissary General in the stead of M^r Goldsborough
who lately died of a Dropsy I ordered a Commission to be
accordingly issued to M^r Walter Dulany who entered upon
his Office the 15^th Inst from which time therefore you are to
look to him for the usual Remittance or whatever other Sum
you may require. The Naval Office of Potuxent value about
£130 p^r Ann will now fall to M^r Platers Share according to
his Lordships pleasure signified to Me some time ago unless
he voluntarily waves it in favour of his intimate Friend Col^o
Fitzhugh a deserving Gentleman who has applied for it but I
told him I could do nothing therein till Col^o Plater who was
then & is still absent in a distant part of the Province should
return home & have an Opportunity of making Application.
Mess^rs Mason & Dixon are now proceeding with the Line
which I expect they will finish early enough for the Stones
received by Capt Love to be set up before Winter & what
other Boundary Stones may be wanted beyond the South
Mountain can I think be raised hewn & graven near the
places where they are to be fixed than sent thither from
England as the Carriage of them so far back will be expen-
sive. Yov will see by the inclosed Gazette that the Managers
of the Liberty Lottery have advertised it again & propose to
draw in October. I am &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 30^th July 1767.
My Lord
Since I addressed myself to your Lordship the 27^th Inst
William Holliday & Thomas Litton have brought me the
inclosed Bills for forty eight Pounds six Shillings & Twenty
two pounds sixteen shillings being the first Payment for the
Tracts of Land they respectively bought the 21^st Inst as your
Ldp will see by the inclosed Minute. I am &c.

Letter Bk. V

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]
Serj^ts Inn London. 13^th Aug^st 1767.

S^r

I wrote your Excellency very fully the 20^th of last Month,
& am now just favoured by M^r Anderson's son, with your
Letter of the 9^th of June, and the accompanying Papers. It
will give us great pleasure to hear of M^r Brerewoods Nonsuit,
and the more so If it can be done without Entring into the

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