Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 479

ing to lease out what remains vacant or unsettled of the
Mannours & Reserves you will be pleased to send Orders to
that effect. As your Ldp some time ago express't a Desire
to have other Mannours laid out if sufficient Bodies of Vacant
Land could be found for that purpose I caused a Survey to be
lately made in Frederick County just beyond Fort Cumber-
land containing as by the Platt thereof return'd & deposited
in the Revenue Office 96610 Acres some of it is said to be
very good Land but the greatest part mountainous. Such of
it as is pretty good might I am informed be leased out imme-
diately at Ten Shillings p^r hundred Acres for a Term of years
with Condition that the Tenants shall make customary
Improvements & it might I dare say be sold a few years
hence at a price considerably higher than vacant uncultivated
Land, or if your Ldp chooses to reserve only a part of the
said Land an Order might be given for the quantity your Ldp
would have lain out as a Mannour & the Residue may be
granted in Parcels to such Persons as may be willing to take
it up on the usual Terms of the Land Office. A few Miles
Westward of this large Tract there is a Tract of 2524 Acres
of good Land lying on the Branches of the Yoghiogany River
which I have caused to be surveyed in order that if your Ldp
pleases That also might be reserved or if your Ldp approves
thereof & the Patentees are willing it might be given in
exchange for some Patented Tracts that lie within the large
Survey, & granted in Parcels to such Persons as had applied
for Warrants to affect Land lying within the said large Survey
before I orderd it to be surveyed ; if your Ldp chooses to
have either the whole or a Part reserved as a Mannour you
will be pleased to signify by what Name it is to be called.
Your Ldp will be pleased to observe that this large Survey
extends from Potowmack so far Northward as the Line lately
run between this Province & Pennsylvania & so far Westward
as to include part of the Allegany Mountains now by His
Majesty's Proclamation bearing Date the 7'^h of Oct^r 1763 no
Grant is to be made for Lands lying Westward of that Moun-
tain so that altho there is a good deal of Land fit for Culture
lying within the Limits of this Province & beyond that Moun-
tain I have restrained the Surveyors from executing any War-
rant there till your Ldp shall signify your farther pleasure.
As soon as your Ldps pleasure relative to M^r Aliens being
appointed to the Office of Keeper of the Western Shore Rent
Roll or to any other Office that might become vacant in Con-
sequence of Col^o Lloyds Resignation or otherwise was signi-
fied to me by M^r Hamersley's Letter of the 10^th of Nov^r I
communicated the same to M^r Alien who told Me he had him-
self a Copy of M^r Hamersley's Letter to Me & as it was

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