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Instructions from George II. to Lord Baltimore.
Instructions from Lord Baltimore to Governor
Sharpe.
Journal of Proceedings of the Convention of Dele-
gates from the several Colonial Governments to form
a treaty with the Six Nations of Indians, held at Al-
bany, seventeen hundred and fifty-four.
History of the Revenue Laws of Maryland.
Historical Memoranda.
Files of Original Letters from the Governors of
several of the Colonies, from British Generals, Se-
cretaries of State, from the Board of Trade, from
Lord Baltimore, &c. &c., from seventeen hundred and
fifty-three to seventeen hundred and sixty-eight.
Several Parchment Documents and Commissions
from Lord Baltimore, relative to the settlement of the
boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland,
Amongst the miscellaneous papers are letters from
William Pitt, (Lord Chatham,) Lords Hillsborough,
Egremont, Duke of Richmond, &c., and from London,
Dinwiddie, Farquier, Sherby, Sir William Johnson,
and from Generals Amherst, Abercrombie, Sir John
Sinclair and others, holding official stations in this
and several of the Colonies.
Your committee being unanimously of the opinion
that these documents and papers should belong to, and
placed in the archives of our State, recommend the
adoption of the following resolution:
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the State Librarian be, and he is hereby authorised to
purchase of the executors of Horace Ridout the afore-
said documents and papers, relating to the early his-
tory of Maryland; provided, the same may be had for
the sum of five hundred dollars, and that the Trea-
surer of the Western Shore pay the same to the order
of the Librarian, in favor of the said executors.
No. 41.
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