Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 463

mitted to you with a Copy of the minutes of the Maryland &
Pennsylvania Commissioners Proceedings at their late Meet-
ing when as you will be thereby informed we discharged
Mess^rs Mason & Dixon who were sent hither from England
to run the Boundary Lines they having finished the Business
as far as can be done at this time. When they shall have
compleated their Draft which they will do in about a Fort-
night They are it seems at the Expence of the Royal Society
to remeasure the Tangent Line or at least a Part of it very
accurately & to take some more Observations in order to
ascertain precisely how many Miles are equal to a Degree of
Latitude in this Climate so that they will not probably return
to England before the Summer & therefore we declined
making any Settlement with them at present & indeed could
not well do so by reason of the Absence of the Steward that
attended them who is still on the Frontiers paying some
Debts that were contracted there during the Course of the
Summer. As the Surveyors could not possibly compleat their
Draft before the first Inst when our Commission expired we
could not at this time make a Report or return our Commis-
sion to our Constituents but have agreed to meet again as
soon as possible after the Receipt of a new Commission
(which the Pennsylvania Gentlemen told us they had already
applied for) & then I expect we shall finish every thing that
remains to be done by us & that Copies of the Surveyors
Draft will be transmitted by the earliest Opportunity after-
wards to His Ldp & the Proprietors of Pennsylvania for
their Approbation. As I do not by this Conveyance trouble
His Ldp with any Letter on the Subject I desire you will be
pleased to present my Respects & lay before him what will
be transmitted to you & am w^th great Regard.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

Copy of a Letter to His Lordship. Annapolis 9^th Feb^ly 1768.
My Lord
A Ship that was to have sailed hence at Christmas for
Bristol having been caught by the Ice & detained till this time
I embrace the Opportunity as no Ship is at this time ready to
sail directly for London to remit Your Ldp by the way of
Bristol sundry Bills of Exchange contained in the inclosed
Letter & of informing Your Ldp that when we lately went to
S^t Marys & Charles in order to set up to Sale the Mannours
in those Counties so few Purchasers offered that we could
only sell 2477 3/4 Acres & for that could get no more than
£2200 15 10 1/2 for Part of which I shall remit Your Ldp Kills
of Exchange by M^r Jordan who intends he tells me to embark

Letter Bk. V