556 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. V

Pennsylvania allow to each of their Commissioners & as M^r
Malcolm the only Mathematician nominated in your Ldps
Commission was unable to attend at the time it arrived &
died soon afterwards I thought there was a necessity for having
some other in his stead & M^r Leeds was acknowledged to be
by far the best in the Province, your Ldp's Agent here will
therefore I hope be authorized to pay him. None of the other
Commissioners who acted on behalf of your Ldp have exhibited
any Account nor do I suppose they intend to make any Claim
for their Attendance. In the Letter I address't to M^r Ham-
ersley the 3O^th of last Month I informed him that M^r Carroll
One of the Gentlemen whom your Ldp was lately pleased to
nominate a Member of the Council & Upper House had
declined qualifying & while I was on the Eastern Shore I
received the following Letter from M^r Mathew Tilghman
bearing Date the 8^th Inst. "Sir I purposed to have waited
upon your Excellency at Annapolis about this time according
to my Appointment but understanding that you will be on this
shore & judging it improper to delay any longer the Notice
of my Refusal I take the freedom in this manner to signify to
your Excellency that I do not incline to accept the Agents
Commission or to take a Seat at the Council Board. I am by
no means insensible to the honour done me by Ld Baltimore
in these Appointments & I beg your Excellency will be pleased
to return His Ldp my Thanks with an Assurance that I shall
always endeavour to retain a just Sense oi his Favour. I have
the honour to be with the greatest Respect &c." On my
Return to Annapolis I communicated the Contents of M^r
Tilghman's Letter to the Board of Revenue & desired their
Advice what Steps ought to be taken with respect to the
Agents Office which they were of Opinion could not after
what M^r Hamersley had wrote to Me the 18^th July & after
what he had wrote to M^r D Dulany be any longer continued
to M^r Allen & as that Gent' had given out & indeed inti-
mated to me that he had Thoughts of leaving the Province
very shortly in order to repair to your Ldp they were of
Opinion that he ought to be called on immediately to produce
to the Board a general Account or State of what Monies he
had received & remitted to your Ldp to the 29^th of Sept^r last
which he was accordingly desired to do but refused to comply
till the 25^th of March next. In Consequence therefore of
their Opinion & Advice I issued a Commission last Saturday
to M^r Dan^l of S^t Thomas Jenifer who before M^r Allen's
Appointment acted as Col^o Lloyds Deputy here & by that
means was well acquainted with the Business, for my own
part I was very sorry to find myself again in such a Situation
not knowing how far this Step might meet with your Ldp's