refuse to contribute, before the 1st day of February next, to the purchase of Arms and Ammunition, for the use of this County, is, and ought to be, esteemed an enemy to America; and that the name of every person who shall refuse to contribute, on such application, be published by the said Committee in the Maryland Gazette.*

Ordered, That these Proceedings be published in the Maryland Gazette.

ISAAC M'HARD, Clerk.

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY (MARYLAND) MEETING.

At a Meeting of a number of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of Prince George's County, held on Monday, the 16th day of January, in Upper Marlborough, for the purpose of choosing a Committee of Inspection, &c.,

JOHN ROGERS, Esquire, was chosen Chairman.

The Proceedings of the Convention, held at Annapolis in December last, were read, and unanimously approved.

The Committee of Inspection, chosen here at the meeting in November last, was continued, and the following persons added thereto, viz: Colonel Joseph Sim, Thomas Contee, Benjamin Hall, son of Francis, Richard Bennet Hall, Clement Hill, Clement Hill, Junior, Thomas Sim Lee, Stephen West, Basil Waring, Sen., Ignatius Digges, Notley Young, William Digges, William Digges, Junior, George Digges, John Hill, Henry Hill, Fielder Bowie, Edward Boteler, Henry Rozer, John Fendall Beall, William Turner Wootton, Singleton Wootton, Edward Edelin, Marsham Waring, Thomas Clagett, (Piscataway,) John Baynes, John Hawkins Lowe, John Harrison, John Read. Magruder, Benjamin Brookes, James Drane, Henry Brookes, Richard Cams, Jacob Green, John M' Gill, Thomas McGill, Leonard Brooke, Captain Henry Brooke, Doctor Joseph Diggers, Thomas Duckelt, Henry Humphrey, Charles Evershield, Robert Wade, Junior, Barton Lucas, Henry Boone, Edward Digges, Nicholas Brooke, Henry Hill, Jun., Walter Hoxton, Benjamin Wales, John Duvall, Clement Wheeler, Charles Haggart, Clement Hill, son of John, Benjamin Berry, Jun., Frank Leeke, Richard Contee, Jacob Duckett, Alexander Symmer, John Smith Brookes, Robert Waters, Arnold Waters, Richard Henderson, William Lydebotham, Alexander Howard Magruder, Christopher Lowndes, Robert Dick, James Collings, John Beanes, Robert Darnall, Jeremiah Ricly, Richard Queen, Joseph Pope, Elisha Berry, Anthony Smith, James Smith, William Morton, John Boone, Jun., Zacariah Berry, Daniel Stephenson, James Miller, Judson Coolidge, Christopher Richmond, George Naylor, Junior, Henry Waring, and John Dorsett.

The Committee of Correspondence, chosen last November, was also continued, and the following gentlemen added thereto, viz: Thomas Sim Lee, Joseph Sim, Thos. Contee, Stephen West, Clement Hill, Senior, Thomas Gantt, Jun., Ignatius Digges, and Benjamin Hall, son of Francis.

The following gentlemen were chosen to attend the next Provincial Meeting at Annapolis, viz: Doctor Richard Brooke, Josias Beall, Robert Tyler, John Rogers, William Bowie, Walter Boivie, George Lee, Thomas Gantt, Junior, Colonel Joshua Beall, Osborn Sprigg, David Crawford, Colonel Joseph Sim, Thomas Contee, Benjamin Hall, son of Francis, Luke Marbury, Stephen West, John Contee, and Thomas Sim Lee, and it was resolved that any five or more of them have power to act.

The following gentlemen, viz: Addison Murdock, and Edward Sprigg, chosen to attend the last Provincial Meeting, were discontinued at their own request, the state of their health not permitting them to attend.

It was recommended to the gentlemen of the Committee of Inspection for this County, to use their utmost diligence to procure subscriptions, to collect the same as soon as possible, and pay the money into the hands of Messrs. John Rogers, David Crawford, and Edward Sprigg, of the Committee of Correspondence, and resolved, that the said Committee, or a majority of them, of which the above gentlemen shall be a part, have authority to lay out the said money in the purchase of Arms and Ammunition, according to a Resolution of the last Provincial Convention, and that fair Accounts of the expenditure shall be kept, and ready to be laid before the General Committee when required,

Ordered, That a sufficient number of subscription papers be printed, and forwarded to the several Committee-men appointed for the said County, in order to forward the said subscriptions; and that the Committee of Correspondence take care to procure the said papers, and pay for the same out of the subscription money.

Ordered, That the Proceedings of this day be published in the Maryland Gazette.

BALTIMORE COUNTY (MARYLAND) MEETING.

At a Meeting of the Inhabitants of Baltimore County, qualified to vote for Representatives, at the Court House, in Baltimore Town, on Monday, the 16th day of January, 1775,

Captain CHARLES RIDGELY, Chairman,
JEREMIAH TOWNLEY CHASE, Clerk:

The Proceedings of the late Provincial Convention were read, considered, and unanimously approved.

Resolved unanimously, That every member of this meeting will, and every person residing in this County ought, strictly and inviolably to observe and execute the Resolu-

* TO THE PRINTERS OF THE MARYLAND GAZETTE.

Be pleased to give a place to the following Queries, and oblige a friend to liberty and moderation.

1st. Whether an assembly of two hundred, or at most two hundred and fifty persons, exclusive of the citizens, can, with propriety, be called a full meeting of the inhabitants of Anne Arundel County?

2d. Whether, after a power is delegated to a chosen few, to act on the behalf of the whole, any persons not empowered have a right to determine questions of the first importance, contrary to the sentiments of a majority of such chosen Committee.

3d. Whether the fourth Resolve was tumultuously entered into in the night, after many of the country gentlemen had left Town, and the citizens also had in general retired?

4th. Whether it be not probable, and even contain, that a majority of the Committee, as well as of the inhabitants of the County who were in Town, and citizens, would have waited to have prevented the measure, had they apprehended any such Resolve would have been moved for?

5th. Whether such procedure be warranted by any thing published by the Continental Congress?

6th. Whether, in fine, the publication of the Proceedings of last Monday, as it now stands, be by the order of, and with proper authority from, the Committee?—ANNAPOLIS, January 19, 1775.

TO THE PRINTERS OF THE MARYLAND GAZETTE.

As the Resolves in the last Handbill are to be published in the Gazette, relative to the Proceedings on Monday last, an impartial spectator begs you will submit the following Queries to the consideration of your readers:

Can it be reasonably asserted that the meeting on that day was a full meeting of the inhabitants of this County?

At the time the polling commenced respecting the fourth Resolve, were not a great majority of the country gentlemen gone out of Town, not expecting any transaction of that nature; were there many inhabitants of the City present; and is it not reasonable to believe, that if the meeting of the County and City had been really numerous, the question relative to the publication of Non-Subscribers would have been rejected as a violent and improper proceeding?

When all America appears unanimous in opposing the principle of Parliamentary Taxation, is it just, is it equitable, to proscribe many respectable characters, zealous in the general cause, yet dissenting from the plan of redress recommended, and enforced by particular people?

Can it with truth be asserted that the fourth Resolve was entered into, with the approbation and concurrence of the Committee, when it is notoriously evident, that a very considerable number of those gentlemen entirely disapprove the same, as a violent, hasty, and improper mode of conduct?

Is it consistent with liberty—the distinguishing characteristick of British subjects—to condemn, with a partial fury, those who dissent from any popular opinion; can it consist with freedom, to point them out as victims of vengeance, to the hazard of the publick peace, the distress of worthy families, and the destruction of private property?

When the most perfect union and harmony ought to subsist throughout every rank of men here, is it wisa, is it politick, to ferment and create divisions among ourselves? ought we to exert an arbitrary authority, arbitrary in the highest degree, by compelling each other, under the severest penalties, to adopt the same violent extremes, and to run before every other Province in the fantick career of military opposition? A little reflection, I am confident, will convince my countrymen that we are strangely precipitate in our conduct. Let us act with firmness, yet with a just and becoming respect to our mother country. While we object to proceedings that we deem oppressive and unconstitutional, let us not burst through the barriers of law; let us not, in the warmth of mistaken zeal, commit violences greater than those of which we complain, and thereby lose those friends and adherents, who can only be secured by a steady and uniform department; let not mean suspicions and violent principles take root among ns; so shall success crown our present efforts, enmity shall be buried in oblivion, peace shall be re-established on a permanent foundation, and amity, eternal amity, shall flourish between Great Britain and her Colonies.—ANNAPOLIS, January 19, 1775.