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Of Lands included in Elder Surveys
It is the Opinion that as long as the Patents remain in Force the
Patentees or their Heirs must be accountable for the Rents of all the
Lands expressed in the Patent & the Farmer must endeavour to:
get such
[The text of the manuscript ends abruptly here. The remaining pagea of the
instructions are missing, but an examination of the letter of Sharpe to Lord
Baltimore, dated April 19, 1759, acknowledging its receipt, will show that the
Governor was also instructed to appoint Stephen Bordley a member of the Council,
and to appoint Daniel Dulany, the younger, to replace Col. Benjamin Tasker as
Commissary-General. The reply of the Proprietary to the address of the Assembly
protesting against the embargo, and the report of the Commissioners of Trade and
Plantations refusing to recommend that the embargo be lifted, are also missing.
(Arch. Md. ix, 337)-]
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