Correspondence of Gov. Horatio Sharpe, 1754-1765. 555

the East Indies, men return with half & whole millions a
100000 man call'd moderate, the Price of Land so rise tis
common now to sell & to have double income by money
interest.

[Cecilius Calvert to Horatio Sharpe]

London Jan^y the 16^th 1765.
Sir.

I have answered by former Letters some concerns of Your
Letters received from you since August last, and now inclose
you his Lordships Instructions to the main points of your
desires. The Instructions of the Sale of the Manor Lands,
The Purchase Money is from Opinion of M^r Daniel Dulany
to My Lord, the Quit Rent proposed, five shillings pro rato
hundred Acres, as these Lands are pick'd Lands is judged
moderate; if these propositions are Errors? Yours and the
Gentlemens Judgements will rectify here such Error, which
You'l receive by return.

The Instruction of the Alienation Fine is what the Pro-
prietor will adhere to, as founded upon undoubted Equity
his Due; a Tryal here before the Lord Chancellor would
evince that. By intelligence from the Province, M^r 'Lloyd
is accused of neglect of the Alienation Fine in suffering the
County Clerks omissions in Acc^ts non-payment, this is easily
rectifyed as the Provincial County Courts where such mat-
ter must stand Recorded can prove Evidently the wrong, if
true, the Clerks deserve no favour; I have admonished
M^r Lloyd thereon, when you meet, hint to him as from hence.
The Instruction to Attornement of Tenants in the disputed
Parts, the Equitable Terms must facilitate their attornemcnt,
the Limit Lines when compleated, by Petition of both Parties
to the King will receive His Majesty's Authority as fixed
Boundaries between Maryland and Pensilvania to each, as to
Dominion. By your Letters of the Limits now running, the
Mess^rs Mason and Dixon the Mathematical Surveyors have
carry'd on their operations Quietly; I learn from you and
them the Tangent Line twelve miles West of the Circle round
the New Castle City is finished from the Meridian Line South
from Fenwick Island. My Compl^ts to them for their intel-
ligence; and am glad to hear of their health, and that the
Swamps of Nanticoke River has not hurt their Constitutions,
their next operation is the North West Line between the
Provinces, it is there his Lordships Gain will compensate his
Loss by the Tangent Line at the Circle round Newcastle, that
North West Line truly run, will give advantagious Territory
to Maryland, therefore, Watching Eyes must trace that Line