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glorious Conquest of the Havannah. With the greatest
Respect.

Letter Bk. III

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 114^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated Annapolis 25^th
Sept^r 1762 transmitted by Captain M^cLocklin Duplicate
by M^r Buchanan
Sir
I now send you inclosed with the Great Seal appendant
Copies of five Acts of Assembly of a private nature which
were passed the last Session but could not be transmitted
with those I sent you the 2I^st of June by reason that they were
not then printed : As the Reasons which induced the Legisla-
ture to pass them are set lorth in the Acts themselves & they
are similar & agreable to Acts formerly passed I flatter myself
they will meet with His Ldp's Approbation. Since I wrote to
you the 12^th Inst The Commissioners who as I then informed
you were gone to Newcastle are returned having as you will
perceive by the inclosed Extract from their Minute Book
joined with the Pennsylvania Commissioners in giving the
Surveyors Instructions to go down once more to the Middle
Point & run up another Line after the manner prescribed in
the Instructions of which I shall inclose you a Copy. In order
to avoid the great Expence which will be occasioned by the
Running another Line our Commissioners would have per-
suaded the Pennsylvania Gentlemen to wave it untill they could
jointly inform their Constituents what Lines had been already
run after what manner they were run & what has been the
Issue, imagining His Ldp & the Proprietors of Pennsylvania
may have thereupon come to some Agreement or other, &
have established the Line last run as a Boundary instead of
the Tangent required especially as upon a Calculation sup-
posing the Line last run is truly straight, not more than about
ten or twelve Thousand Acres of Land most of which is
already patented can be contained between the Line last run
& the true Tangent required. Tho the Pennsylvania Gentⁿ
did not particularly mention it there is great reason to sup-
pose that what makes them so very intent on having that
Boundary Line brought farther westward is the Prospect they
have of its Cutting Bohemia & Elk Rivers below Tide Water
which the true Tangent when described will do, in which
Case the Pennsylvania Traders will it is apprehended notwith-
standing the Reservation in the Articles & of the Endeavours
of this Government to prevent it, have a great part of the
Produce of this Country carried up to the Heads of those
Rivers & thence carried to the Philadelphia Markett, whither

Letter Bk. IV