54 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

might be put off to a longer Day & the Commissioners
nominated by the Proprietors of Penns^a having thereupon
appointed to meet us there the 29^th of last Month I sett off for
that place the third Day after I had prorogued the Assembly
with M^r Ridout M^r Leeds & D^r Steuart whom at the Desire
of Col^o Henry I had appointed a Commissioner in his Stead
for as M^r Bordley was obliged at that time to attend the Com-
missary's Court, M^r Barclay indisposed & Col^o Lloyd had
desired to be excused alledging the Necessity he was under
after so long Absence at the Assembly of devoting some time
to his own Affairs I thought it would not be well for only three
Commissioners to go lest by Sickness or any other Accident
One of them should be rendered unable to attend the Meet-
ing, & as D^r Steuart enjoys a good Share of Health is able to
undergo Fatigue & is under great Obligations to His Ldp I
thought him a proper Person to be nominated & hope the
Step I have taken will meet with His Ldp's Approbation.
What Resolution the Commissioners came to relative to Run-
ning the Tangent the inclosed Copy of our Minute will shew,
the Surveyors were so much afraid of suffering in their health
from running thro the Swamps more early after such a Wet
Season as there had been that we could not prevail on them
to proceed to their Work before the 24^th of this Month. If
His Ldp & the Proprietors of Penns^a agree to protract the
time limitted for finishing the Business till the 31^st Dec^r 1764,
You will be pleased to signify to the Gentleman who may be
employed to draw the Commission that John Ridout Esq^r
hath been appointed a Comm^r by me in the stead of Col^o
Tasker, John Leeds Esq^r in the Stead of M^r Malcolm, the
Rev^d M^r John Barclay in the place of M^r Dulany & George
Steuart Esq^r in the room of Col^o Henry otherwise he will
insert the name of Col^o Tasker who is dead & of others who
have now no Concern with the Business. When Col^o Lloyd
was here during the Assembly I put him in mind of the
Instructions which His Ldp had been pleased to send him the
8^th of Oct^r & of which I had received a Duplicate whereupon
he told me that he would make Enquiry & purchase a Lot or
half a Lot in Town to build a Receiver Gen^ls Office on & that
if His Ldp would be therewith satisfied he would endeavour
to conform to the Instructions so far as they prescribed a
Mode of keeping the Accounts & should have no Objection
to submitting them to my Inspection, but as he apprehended
that some of the Gentⁿ named particularly M^r Dulany with
whom he has for some time been at Law & D^r Steuart with
whom he has also had Contests would be disposed to give
him Trouble & as he at the same time conceived the obliging
him to lay his Accounts before such a Board after a manner