Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765. 535

gence of his Approbation of him, you may depend of my in-
forming you by the first oppertunity. With Regard to his
Son whom My Lord likes as all does who knows him, he is on
immediate departure for the Province, has given Application
to the Law at Westminster and designs Pleading in the
Province. As M^r Comiss^ry Bordley designs resignation as
Attorney General to you, in order thereto he has applyed
by Letter to me for Leave from My Lord, I have given him
in Answer to his Epistle so to do; if you approve. Now of
favour to young Kay the Attorney Gen^ll's Commission is
with you; he is a member of the Lower House. With Re-
gard to M^r Scott you recommend for favour, I have not the
least Hesitation but that his Lordship will give his Approba-
tion of his Succeeding on M^r Ross's resignation of the Clerk-
ship of the Council, this I will Note to his Lordship for
answer to you by the first opportunity; M^r Ross's continuance
as Naval officer of Patuxent on payment M^r Darnal's default,
I make no Doubt of, I would give Consent on My Lord's
Behalf, But as I have Letters from you for his Lordship
which I have directed to him, I make no doubt But of your
mention of these last requests to him, therefore must wait
his Consent. I thank you By this your Letter for your
kind remittance to me. £126.5.0. Yours of the 25^th of Sep-
tember last I have, Accompany'd with the Journals of the
Lower House and the several Acts of Assembly passed by
you at a Sessions of Assembly held by you last March. The
Acts having no particularity, they being mostly Acts similar
and agreeable to Acts formerly passed, I wave them for his
Lordship's Sanction. It is with much concern I receive the
Intelligence by you inclosed of the Commissioners return
from New Castle, it seems as if better the Commissioners
not to a Suffered the Surveyors with the Pensilvania Sur-
veyors to a gone again to the Middle Point after the manner
prescribed in the Instructions, perhaps they have Er'd in the
Execution, if not, they have officiously Unbaged a Cat.

I know Little of the Articles of Agreement between his
Lordship and the Messieurs Perms; I did all I could to pre-
vent My Lord from agreeing to the Line from the supposed
Cape Hinlopen, assuring him that I was well apprised that
M^r Thomas Penn had had at times observations privately
taken on the East and West shore for the run of the East
and West Line on the Peninsula as to its points how they
would Bear, that he had by those he had employed fool'd
the late Lord's Commissioners in the run of that Line from
East to West over to James and Taylor Islands, to give it
Length, for the better Division of the Peninsula upwards
to answer his purposes East, Both as to gain of Land and for