512 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

pleased to favour me with the I^st of May 1767 & the 25^th of
March last together with a Petition Subscribed by the Indians
called Nanticokes desiring that an Act might pass impower-
ing them to sell the Lands which were heretofore appropriated
by the Legislature in this Province to the use of that Tribe.
In Consequence of my recommending this Affair to their
immediate Consideration the Lower House of Assembly
appointed a Committee to examine into the nature of those
Indians Claim & on their making a Report presented to me
the inclosed Address, however on my sending them a
Message & on some of the Persons who had a Right to enter
on part of the Land in case the Indians should relinquish it
interesting themselves in the Business the Members agreed
to accept an Offer M^r Ogden had thought fit to make on
behalf of the Indians & a Bill was accordingly framed for
granting him the Sum he required, which was a few Days
afterwards pass't into a Law & I herewith send you a Copy
of it, the Assembly agreed likewise to defray the Expence
which had been occasioned by M^r Ogden's & the Indians
coming down last year from Otsiningo to treat with those that
lived in this Province. I intended to have wrote to you by
M^r Ogden but he was so impatient to get away immediately
after the Act pass't & he had received the Dollars that 1 had
not leisure at that time, but I presume he has eer this advised
you of his proceedings & informed you in what manner the
Business that brought him hither was concluded. I am &c.

Original.

[Hamersley to Sharpe.]

Excellency's Letter of 9^th Feb^y to Expect about
Michaelmas next, as you there mention it to be the Commis-
sioners opinion that he had better continue in the Agency till
that time in order to Collect in the Outstanding Debts himself
and by that time his Lordship was prepared, as desired by
your Excellency, to have sent over a new Commission upon
the first Notice of his Resignation in favor of such Gentleman
with whom he thought proper to Entrust the future manage-
ment of his Revenue. The Person his Lordship has some
time had in View for M^r Loyd's successor is M^r Mathew
Tighlman, a Gentleman recommended to him as every way
qualifyed for so Important a Station and whose Security is
Exceptionable Your Excellency will therefore please to
deliver him the accompanying Commission Appointing him
to that office, and as his Lordship thinks so high an Officer
ought to be of his Provincial Council your Excellency has like-
wise a further Instrument Calling him up to that Station.
The Keeper of the Rent Roll being now separated from the