Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. 355

hereafter applied as the General Assembly should think fit, to
which Application the Upper House (to whom I had commu-
nicated Your Ldp's Instruction of the 6^th of August last) made
no Objection but the Bill being in some Respect deficient
they proposed Amendments thereto which the Lower House
refused to admit on pretence that it was a Money Bill, & that
such Bills were either to be pass't or rejected absolutely
by the Upper House ; some Days afterwards the Lower
House having supplied the Defects of the Bill & given it a
new Title sent it again to the Upper House who being unwill-
ing to give the least Countenance to the unreasonable Claim
the Lower House were setting up returned it with a Negative,
on the same Account a Bill for Regulating or Lycencing
Hawkers & Pedlars fell also to the Ground. The Upper
House likewise refused their Assent to a Bill for procuring a
Statue of Lord Chatham & a Picture of Lord Camden because
the Lower House expressly excluded them from all share in
the Appropriation of Money for that purpose confining the
Compliment intended to those Lords purely to themselves.
These being the most notable Transactions of the Session I
thought it my Duty to mention them to Your Ldp, but that
Your Ldp may be advised as soon as possible of every thing
that passed during the Course of the Session I shall as I have
already intimated by this Opportunity transmit a Copy of the
Upper House Journal if it can possibly be got ready before
this Ship sails ; & as soon as it can be made out will trans-
mit to M^r Hamersley a Copy of the Lower House Journal
also. As I shall herewith send under M^r Hamersley's Cover
a Copy of the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commission-
ers for Running the Boundary Lines at their Meeting the 18^th
of last Month I shall not trouble Your Ldp with any thing at
present about that Affair which will I expect be brought to a
final Conclusion pretty early next Summer in case the Sur-
veyors proceed & if they do not proceed the Commissioners
will probably make Return of their Commission about April
or May next. As I have in another Letter of this Date wrote
to Your Ldp in answer to the Letter vou were pleased to
favour me with the 2^d of August last & have perhaps in this
been already too prolix I shall only add that I remain with the
utmost Respect Your Ldps faithful & most obed^t Sev^t

[Sharpe to Hamersley.]

Copy of 9^th Letter to M^r Hamersley. Dated Annapolis the
8^th Dec^r 1766. transmitted by Capt M^cLachlan.
D^r S^r
In the Letter I addressed to you the 20^th last Month I
informed you that the two Houses of Assembly had at length

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