Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765. 539

reasuming was Suffered to be begun, How can refusal be
made ? he refuses all composition by payment for Land that
may be on his side Lost by reasonable Zig Zeg of the line
he desires, naught; his reasons tend to what I have observed
Before on this matter, God send a good Deliverance. As to
the North Line which is to be run by paralell of Latitude, he
hoped I agreed in opinion, that if two Persons could be had
hence of real Geometrical and Mathematical Abilities, such
Artists would best determine that Line, who were as he was
informed to be had and would Go; that the Numbers Now
Employed on Each side, had such Contradictions in opinion,
that would frustrate the run and Execution of the said North
Line which would be carry'd on by two Persons from hence
easily and without interruption, as they would have no other
Interest than their Duty, I agreed, from your hint of that
opinion would be the Best; he then asked me where Lord
Baltimore was? I said by his last Letter at Naples, when
might he be expected Home? I thought about Michaelmas;
he said not sooner, I thought Not, then says he we must defer
the Consideration of the North Line untill the fall at his re-
turn, and said he would inform Governor Hamilton thereof,
hope I would the same to you. he desired I would write by
the Packet, I answered No, that I found a Liberty had been
taken with several Letters I had wrote in their Non passing
by the Post in America. I would write to you No more of
any thing of Consequence (unless upon matters pressing),
I had of Letters received No answer, he said if you would
send your Letters to Governor Hamilton, care would be
taken of them to the Course of the Post. Your Pipe of
Madeira is arrived for Lord Baltimore and Landed. Note.
Have an Eye to the Printing of the Tonage Act, the word
Fort Duty instead of Port Duty, the Latter belonging En-
tirely to the Proprietors and is so determined in the Reign of
William the Third, an Account thereof vou have received p^r
his Lord^ps Inst^ns

March 18^th 1763. If you approve not of young M^r Kay
as present to be Attorney General. M^r Holliday of the Lower
House has character and Abilities Sufficient for that Station,
and seems of Behaviour without Rancour and of discernment
against the Assessment Bill, Oppressive and Illegal by his
Behaviour at the Sessions of Assembly, in March 1762.

Mar. 21^st Yesterday morning I was informed that M^r
Anderson Merchant on Lower Hill, had received a Packet
from Maryland, Directed to M^r Franklyn, if not in England
to be delivered to his son William Franklyn. This morning
I went to him and asked him concerning, he said yes, that it