38 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. III

eighty four Recruits which if they please they may do without
raising any Money whatever as there is more than enough for
that purpose already in the Treasury. When I am able to
inform Your Excellency more certainly what may be expected
from this Province I will again do myself the honour to write
to you in the mean time.

Letter Bk.IV

[Sharpe to Calvert.]

Copy of 109^th Letter to M^r Calvert Dated the 15^th of April
1762. transmitted by Capt Andrews.
Sir
There being a Vessel just about to sail for Bristol I embrace
the Opportunity to transmit a few Lines to inform you that
having about six Weeks ago received a Letter from the Earl
of Egremont in the usual Stile requiring me to convene the
Assembly of this Province & to press them in the most earnest
manner to raise a Body of Troops for the Service of the ensuing
Campaign I accordingly met them the 17^th of last Month, soon
after which they Voted 400 Men to be raised cloathed & paid
till the I^st of April next & also 84 Recruits for the Regular
Regiment on this Continent that Number being demanded by
Gen^l Amherst as the quota of this Province, after Debating
two or three Days about the Ways & Means for raising the
Sum required which they settled at £45000 (tho one Third
part of that Sum would have been sufficient for those pur-
poses) It was carried by a Majority of I think seven Voices
that the Plan of the Assessment Law should be still adhered
to whereupon M^r Edward Tilghman M^r Murdock & some
others were appointed to prepare a Bill on that Plan & it was
last Friday Evening sent to the Upper House & returned
thence with a Negative the Tuesday following: The next Day
a Motion was made for Raising 300 Men but the Majority
having then carried a Vote for postponing it untill a Message
should be drawn & sent to the Tipper House in answer to one
they had sent down with the Bill, it hath not been yet deter-
mined whether any less number of Men than 400 shall be
raised or not, but I suppose it will be now finally determined
in a few Days, after which I shall not fail to advise you of our
Proceedings by the first Opportunity, & till you receive my
Letters I hope you will not be made uneasy by any thing our
Letter Writers may take the Liberty to suggest to their Cor-
respondents. Governor Hamilton having received a similar
Letter from the Secretary of State convened his Assembly
also, but they are broke up again without granting any Sup-
plies. The Assembly's sitting at this time laid us under a