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shewing to the Credit of what particular Accounts they are to
be respectively pass't. By the inclosed Copy of the Com-
missioners Minutes you will observe that the Business of the
Boundary Lines is so far brought to a Conclusion that a
Return would have been now made had not the Letters that
the Pennsylvania Commissioners lately received from Messrs
Penns & the Intimation you lately gave to Myself made us
think it would be proper & respectful to postpone making a
final Report or Return of our Commission till the Form you
gave us room to expect should come to hand ; the Surveyors
however were dismiss't & are I suppose by this time ready to
embark at Philaa for England. Inclosed you have a Copy of
the Certificate which the Commissioners thought fit to give
Mess" Mason & Dixon in order for their being settled with
on their Return; Mr Calvert advanced them as I understood
£71 sterling at the time they left England for which therefore
they will give His Ldp Credit in their Account. I shall also
herewith send you a Copy of the Plan or Draft of the Lines
they have been running & were desired to delineate from the
Minutes of their Proceedings, which Minutes I have likewise
ordered to be transcribed so that I may transmit a Copy of
them. Nothing material having lately happened here I Shall
not trouble His Ldp with any thing at present except what I
may write relative to the Bills of Exchange I am to remit him.
In pursuance of my late Intention & agreeable to what I inti-
mated to you I should now take the liberty to mention to His
Ldp the Names of such Gentlemen as in my Opinion may
properly fill the Vacancies which have been lately made in the
Council but as Mr Jordan has wrote to his Correspondents
here that His Ldp hath been pleased to appoint his Brother in
Law Capt Eden Lieutenant Governor in my stead & that he
might certainly be expected in the Province before Christmass,
& Mr Russel in a Letter to Mr Graham his Agent here hath
wrote to the same Effect I do not suppose His Ldp would
chuse to fill up the Council till he shall receive a Letter from
Captain Eden on the Subject & therefore decline troubling
him with any Recommendation or opinion. Had not Mr
Jordan been so particular with regard to the time of Capt
Edens Embarkation I should have been inclined to think He
or his Lady at least would have preferred a Summer Passage
& have put off their Voyage till next Spring, but it seems Mr
Allens Sister (Mr Allen himself having been these five or six
Weeks at Phila) says Letters for him which lately came to hand
from His Ldp or yourself are to the same Effect ; & therefore
not doubting but the Report has sufficient Foundation I shall
(tho I am not & should not be favoured with any Hint from
His Ldp or yourself) hold Myself in readiness to remove
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