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mitted to you & shall by a Ship that will sail soon from
Potuxent send you a Duplicate the Commissioners have
agreed to return under their hands & Seals several other
Copies of the Lines as soon as we can get them properly
pasted on Canvass that they may be countersigned by our
Constituents & returned hither to be deposited in some of the
Publick Offices. Inclosed you will receive an Account against
His Ldp for the Attendance of M^r Leeds as a Commissioner
& Mathematician at different times on this Business; he was
appointed in the stead of M^r Malcolm on that Gentleman's
being unable to attend being esteemed to have the most
Mathematical Knowledge of any Person in the province. It
was at the time the Commission was sent hither in 1760 thought
absolutely necessary that such a Person should be retained in
the Service & his Charge is the same that the Proprietors of
Pennsylvania allow to each of their Commissioners & that was
you know allowed to Mess" Mason & Dixon. I send you also
inclosed an Account that was lately delivered to Me by one
M^r Geo Garnett amounting to £17 being due as he has stated
for sundry Services by him performed so long ago as the years
1747 & 1750 by order of the then Governor & for which he
alledges he never received any Satisfaction. I am &c.

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. 28 Nov^r 1768
My Ld
Since I did myself the honour to write to your Ldp the 31^st
of Oct^r I have received your Ldps Note of the 3^d of August
with the three Copies of Engravings you were therewith
pleased to send Me for which I return your Ldp Thanks. At
the time I last address't Myself to your Ldp I was preparing
to cross the Bay in order to attend a meeting of the Com-
missioners who had been appointed to run the Boundary Lines
& I embrace this first Opportunity that has since offered to
inform your Ldp that the Commissioners appointed by your
Ldp & the Proprietors of Pennsylva^a have now joined in a
Report & returned to your Ldp & them a certifyed Plan or
Draft of the several Lines that have been run pursuant to the
Articles of Agreement, of which I presume your Ldp will be
soon advised by M^r Hamersley to whom I have already trans-
mitted one Copy of the said Draft & Report & shall send
another by this Conveyance. I have also inclosed to M^r
Hamersley an Account that has been put into my hands by
M^r Leeds for his Attendance as a Commissioner & Mathema-
tician on the Business of the Lines amounting to 177 Guineas at
the Rate of a Guinea a Day which is what the Proprietors of

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