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INSTRUCTIONS OF LORD BALTIMORE TO
GOVERNOR SHARPE, 1758
INSTRUCTIONS OF FREDERICK, LORD BALTIMORE, DATED
Nov. 27, 1758, TO GOVERNOR HORATIO SHARPE. THE
PROPRIETARY ASSENTED TO ALL THE LAWS PASSED AT THE
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1757 SESSION; ORDERED THE GOV-
ERNOR TO ALLOW NOTHING TO BE DONE AFFECTING THE
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MARYLAND AND PENNSYL-
VANIA GOVERNMENTS; NOR TO APPROVE ANY BILL WHICH
WOULD RESTRICT THE USE OF TROOPS TO ANY PARTICULAR
PLACE; AND TO ENFORCE HIS AUTHORITY UNDER THE LAW
OF I/IS TO MARCH THE MILITIA TO ANY PART OF THE
PROVINCE HE MAY SEE FIT. THE PROPRIETARY WRITES
THAT HE IS ENCLOSING HIS ANSWER TO THE JOINT ADDRESS
TO HIM OF THE TWO HOUSES OF THE ASSEMBLY PROTEST-
ING AGAINST THE EMBARGO ON PROVISIONS, TOGETHER
WITH A COPY OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF
TRADE AND PLANTATIONS TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE
PRIVY COUNCIL, DECLARING THAT IT WAS NOT ADVISABLE
TO LIFT THE EMBARGO.
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Archives
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Portfolio
No. 3
Letter 7
Hall of
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Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietor of the Provinces of
Maryland & Avalon in America Lord Baron of Baltimore of the
Kingdom of Ireland. Orders and Instructions to be Observed and
Pursued by our Trusty and Welbeloved Horatio Sharpe Esq.r
our Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our Province of
Maryland.
F. Baltimore
With these My Instructions is Inclosed you." dated July the
I2.th 1758 a Copy of the Report of the Lords Commissioners of
Trade & plantations To the Right Hon.ble the Lords of Committee
of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council for plantation
Affairs Concerning the Houses of Assembly in Marlyand Petition
to the King praying leave to Export Corn &c.a And Inclosed is a
Letter dated the 23.d of August 1758 from William Sharpe Esqr
Clerk of the Council to me touching the Said Copy of Report And
in his Said Letter is contain'd by Order of the Lords of the Com-
mittee of Council their Lordship's Opinion that it is not Adviseable
to permit Corn &c.a to be Exported from His Majesty's Colonies in
America to the European Dominions in Amity with His Majesty
at this Juncture. The Copy of the Said Report with the said Letter
I Direct you to laye before Both Houses of Assembly at your
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