Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 75

opinion ; since the Articles are to be carried into Execution I
most heartily wish the Lines were run for indeed these Meet-
ings are not a little irksome & there is not I am apt to think
a Commissioner on either Side who is not quite tired of the
Business. His Lordships Share of the Expences that have

already accrued amounts I believe to £2000 Currency, whence

you may guess what the Expence must amount to should all
the Lines be run in the same manner. The Wages of People
hired to clear Vistoes, to range the Plumb Lines, carry the
Measuring Chain, to cook for the Labourers, drive the
Waggon &c amounts to a great Sum, Add to this the Wages
of Surveyors & a Commissary of Stores or Steward the Cost
of Provision & Forrage, then the Commissioners taking such
frequent Journies, crossing the Bay with Horses &c. & spend-
ing so much time at Newcastle in a publick House, is no light
Expence, tho with respect to that Matter we have been as frugal
as possible, & if we must proceed His Ldp may depend that we
shall act with as much Oeconomy as the manner of carrying on
the Operations will admit. Imagining that you are already
tired with what I have wrote on this Subject I now quit it to
inform you that by the last Post from New York I received a
Letter from the Earl of Egremont wherein he hath been
pleased in more precise Terms than usual to signify His Maj-
esty's Displeasure at the late Conduct & proceedings of our
Lower House of Assembly. Thinking it my Duty to acquaint
His Ldp with the Contents of this Letter I have taken the
Liberty to transmit you a Copy to be laid before him. Should
I be required to convene the Assembly again I shall not fail to
communicate to them the Contents of it, tho they may per-
haps still insist that for want of their having an Agent in
London the Secretary of State must necessarily be a Stranger
to their Proceedings. But whatever Effect it may have on
them it is no small Satisfaction to me to know that His Maj-
esty is pleased to entertain a favourable Opinion of my Zeal
& Endeavours to promote his Service. I am &c.

Letter Bk.IV

[Sharpe to Baltimore.]

To Lord Baltimore. Annapolis 25^th Sept^r 1762.
transmitted by Capt.
My Ld.
In a Letter I did myself the honour to address to your Ldp
the 21^st of June last I advised Your Ldp of my having Ship't
in the Susanna Capt Arbuckle a Pipe of Madeira Wine &
some Hams agreable to Your Ldp's Desire signified to me by
M^r Calvert, but tho the Vessel immediately afterwards fell
down to Hampton in Virginia the Master expecting to sail

Letter Bk. IV