504 Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765.

the Sheriff of Dorchester County My Lord desiers you'l
Note Him for Fraud & unworthy of Future service und:
him, if this be so. I am at a Loss How to Judge M^r Lloyd,
think he is not as I have reason to wish him with My Lord &
right to you. He seems of a freting Discontent, shadow
of Lowe triffling Inginuity. I know not who he likes, he
likes not M^r Tasker, M^r Dulany nor M^r Bordley, he consults
I understand with M^r Chamberlaine, of whom I am inform'd
is not the best, wavering, prehaps it may be to his Age.
Reflection wo^d confine his Duty & friendship to My Lord
in Gratitude, he has been Honoured & Rewarded well by
Both Lords—his services I know none. His runing the
Temporary Line be^t Pensilvania & Maryland has no Merit
'tis greatly to the Disadvantage of Maryland—he is short
of attendance at Assembly Meeting, it wo^d be better he
resign'd his Seat in the Council to one more Suitable Excuse
my touching the Station only with My Lord & you; it wo^d
give me much Concearn to hear a Division in the Council
Old & new Members.

I have y^r Duplicate of the 27^th of Aug^t from ffort Fred-
erick y^r prevalence on Gen^l Forbes to advance Money for
paym^t of the Maryland fforces on the Credit of the Prov-
ince is an Instance of real Service.

My Lord approves of y^r Questions, propounded to the
Council whether they thought the Lower House wo^d recede
from the Points they insist'd on & agree to raise Money by
any other Mode than that w^h they had proposed.

2^dly Whether they would or wo^d not Advice a Dissolution ?
To w^h they were unanimously of Opinion that the Gentelⁿ
of the Lo. Hoxise, wo^d never be brought to offer any other
Bill than that w^h they had lately done therefore advised a
Dissolution. The Controversial Matter on the Modus By
Bill for raising the Money is the Mimick of the Pensilvania
Assembly refused by the Proprietors of that Colony, & not
as yet here, nor can I Learn from the Opponents when or
How they will proceed by Compl^t The Copys of the Mary-
land Bills transmitted, contain Taxes abundant of the Pen-
silvania System. A Tax on Officers in Office Public is in
England, But not upon Officers in private Concern. With
what reason can they Tax My Lord's Private Officers?
inter als. the Land Office, Receiver Gen^l &c^a with the same
parity Why not their Officers of Land concern &c^a the Lo.
House can warrant no such Tax from a British Parliament,
nor a Tax on Quit-Rent, a smal Rent of Acknowledgment
payable by the Tenant of most Manours in England to the
Supreme Lord of the ffee, of which right the Proprietor of