478 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

but that I am sorry it was not in our power to sell more of
the Lands than we have for I am afraid our Remittances will
fall vastly short of what your Ldp expected to receive from
the Mannours at the time you honoured us with a Commission
to sell them. As your Ldp will by a joint Letter or Report
from M^r Dulany M^r Jordan & Myself be informed of what we
have done in pursuance of your Ldp's Commission impower-
ing us to audit & settle your late Agents Accounts I shall not
trouble your Ldp with any thing on that Subject. M^r Jordan
who is already gone hence to Virginia in order to embark
there for England will also present to your Ldp a short
Account of our Proceedings in pursuance of your Ldp's
Commission impowering us to sell your Mannour or
Reserved Lands but lest an Accident should happen to
that Gentleman I shall herewith transmit a short Sketch
made out after the Military rather than the mercantile
method which will shew your Ldp at one View how many
Acres we have sold, how much the Expences occasioned by
making exact & particular Surveys & Plats of the several
Mannours & other Disbursements amount to how much of the
Purchase money has been already received, how much remains
due to be received hereafter & the Amount of the Bills of
Exchange which I have from time to time remitted your Ldp
on that Account. On the Receipt of your Ldp's Commission
dated the 24^th of Nov^r last impowering M^r Dulany & Me to
continue the Sale of the Mannours for six Months longer we
have notified the same to the publick by an Advertisement in
the Maryland Gazette & shall during the ensuing Provincial
Court to be held here the 17^th of May attend at the Revenue
Office in order to sell such of your Ldp's Mannours as People
may be then willing to bid for. On a Supposition that Offers
may be made your Ldp in England for Mannour Lands M^r
Jordan will take home with him such a Descriptive Account
of the Mannours Improvements thereon & the Circumstances
under which they respectively are at this time as together
with the Account of the Prices at which we sold will enable
your Ldp to form a pretty good Judgment of their present
real Value, nevertheless if your Ldp pleases there might be a
standing power & Instruction to the Board of Officers or your
Ldp's Agent here to sell from time to time to the Tenants or
any other Persons that may choose to become Purchasers on
such Conditions as your Ldp has already prescribed or may
be pleased to prescribe in such Instruction. Since your Ldp's
Commission for selling the Mannours was produced to us the
Agent has desisted from granting any new Leases for
Mannour Lands except in Cases where Tenements had been
before actually laid out or agreed for, if your Ldp is now will-