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under his Command as he shall think Expedient to prevent
farther hostilities and to preserve the frontier Inhabitants in
security and quiet, and in the mean time you are to take such
Measures as you shall think best for the defence of the Fort
and Protection of that Neighbourhood
Annapolis 5th July 1763. I am Sir
To Your hble Servant
Doctor Henry Heinzman Horatio Sharpe.
at Fort Frederick
Read Robert Heron's Letter to the Governor and Ordered
the Clerk of this Board to send him the following Answer,
Annapolis 6th July 1763.
Sir
The Governor directs me to inform you in Answer to your
letter of the 21st of last Month that there are no words in any
Articles of Agreement entered into by the Lord Baltimore and
the Proprietors of Pensylvania which can be Constured to
affect the Office which you enjoy in his Majesty's Custons or
to abridge or restrain your Jurisdiction, so that If the Owners
of any Vessels built or Coming into your district should (on
pretence of any thing that has been done by the Commis-
sioners who were appointed to run divisional Lines) refuse
or neglect to pay the same regard as they have usually paid to
the Acts of Trade and to you as Collector of Pocomoke, he
presumes you will exercise the Authority you are vested with
in such a manner as might put an entire stop to such attempts
as you seem to expect will be made by the Inhabitants of Pen-
sylvania Trading up Nanticoke or any other part of your
District
To I am your very Humble Servant
Robert Heron Esqr Collector of John Ross.
His Majesty's Customs in Pocomoke
District.
Read the Report of the Justices of Charles County Court
whereby it appears they had passed sentence of Death upon
Negro Charles Slave of One Margaret Brown of Charles
County for a Felony, and likewise a Letter from the Justices
recommending him the said Negro Charles to the Governor
for Mercy, Ordered pardon issue for the said Negro.
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