Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 513

Agency his Lordship has thought proper to place that Duty
upon the Western Shore in the hands of M^r Reuben
Meriwether.
It has given the greatest Satisfaction to the Proprietarys of
both Provinces to find the Expensive business of Running the
Lines drawn so near a Conclusion and that the Commiss^rs
have Discharged the Surveyors for every purpose Except
what remains to furnish a Compleat Plan of the Lines which
have been run. I hope you have long since received the last
renewed Commission. As to the particular mode of return
the Proprietors have Agreed to Submit it to their Commis-
sioners whether it sho^d not be made by the Commissioners of
both the Proprietors Jointly to the Prop^rys of the different Prov-
inces jointly & not separately ; the Return to be signed by
the Commissioners of both Provinces named in the last Com-
mission and afterwards Signed by the Proprietarys of both
Provinces here and then Entred in all the Publick Offices in
both Provinces Agreable to the Decree, all the former Com-
missions to be taken Notice of and the Proceedings under
them Stated, the Proceedings subseq^l to the Deed of July
1760 to be returned by way of Schedule (those before that
time being as apprehended sanctifyed by that) with a Com-
pleat Plan of the whole work from the beginning to the end,
and four parts to be made of the return, of which Two to be
sent to each Proprietor.
His Lordship Observed with the greatest concern the Dis-
putes which arose between M^r Allen & the Vestry of S^t
James's Parish, and was still more Chagrined at the Appeale
made to the Publick as it could be productive of no good
Consequences to his Authority and Government to see the
Principal Persons Entrusted with both Arraigned at the Bar
of that Tribunal and how happy soever he may find himself in
being relieved from taking any part in the Contest by M^r
Allen's Voluntary Cession of the Benefice & the great Provi-
sion lately made for him by your Excellency in the new Living
given and which his Lordship understands to be worth £800
sterl p^r annum & hopes will Crown all his Wishes. Yet you
may be Assured his Lordship never would have departed
from that Moderation by which his administration has ever
been regulated, either by Introducing Dispensations, or
Favouring Pluralitys, or enforcing any Measures in the least
disagreable to the general sense of his People, where the
Preservation of his own Just rights did not render it necessary.
I am sorry to see from the Farmers Letters the great
Industry which is still used to keep up the Spirit of Discord
between Great Britain and her Colonys with too much success
I fear more Northerly where Matters seem already to have