470 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

that in pursuance of His Ldps Order I was now to appoint
him either Agent or Keeper of the Rent Roll but that 'twas
His Ldps Desire the Affair of Pluralities should be at this
time waved he said that he understood from your Letter to
himself that it was left to me to fill up the blank Commission
to himself as Commissary but when he found you had not
wrote to Me to that Effect he chose the Agency & I shall
therefore desire Col^o Loyd to resign it to him immediately &
will desire Major Jenifer to take Charge of the Rent Roll till
His Ldp's Pleasure respecting that Office can be communicated
to Me. Since His Ldp hath after mature Consideration
thought M^r Rob^t Goldsborough a proper Person to succeed
his Father in the Council I will by the first Opportunity com-
municate to him in your Words His Ldps Approbation of
him & shall likewise give M^r Bordley notice of his Appoint-
ment. These Gentlemen are I think on many Accounts the
most proper that could have been introduced to the Council
at this time. I will by a Ship of M^r Andersons that is to sail
next Month transmit to you a Sketch of such an Instruction as
I think may be sent by His Ldp to His Agent & Judges of
the Land Office in favour of the Children of Aliens, having
not time at present to prepare one & will also then write on
the Subject of Talbot Mannour. 1 am very glad to find the
Affair of our Quarantine Law is likely to end so well & the
Province is much obliged to His Ldp for the Paternal Part he
acts on the occasion. I shall observe His Ldps Instructions in
transmitting to Him any Letters I may hereafter have occasion
to write on Business to the Secretary of State & you may
assure His Ldp that I shall in everything else endeavour to
act agreeable to His Instructions or Desire. I find by a Depo-
sition made by the Daughter of Mary Brereton mentioned in
your Letter of the 20^th of July that the latter died in this Pro-
vince on the 3^d Day of April 1754 I will by M^r Andersons
Ship transmit you a Certificate thereof under the Great Seal.
I am &c.

Original.

[Hillsborough to Sharpe.]

Whitehall March 5^th 1768
Sir.
Pursuant to an Order of His Majesty in Council on the 26^th
of February, I herewith transmit to you a Copy of a Report
made to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations
by His Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor General, upon an Act
passed in the Colony of New Jersey in June 1766, entitled,
"An Act to extend certain Acts of Parliament of Great Britain
passed in the 12^th year of Her late Majesty Queen Anne and