For SHARPSBURGH.—Joseph Chapline, and Christian Orendorff.

For lower part of POTOMACK HUNDRED.—William Bayly, Samuel Wade Magruder, Andrew Hugh, and Charles Jones.

For TOM'S CREEK HUNDRED.—William Blair, William Sheales, and Benjamin Ogle.

For KITOCTON HUNDRED.—George Striker, William Luckett, Junior, and Westel Ridgely.

For UPPER ANTIETAM HUNDRED.—Jacob Funk, Conrad Hogmire, Joseph Perry, and John Ingram.

For LINTON HUNDRED.—Martin Johnson, and Joseph Flint.

For CUMBERLAND HUNDRED.—Charles Clinton.

For MIDDLE MONOCACY HUNDRED.—Thomas Beatty, Matthias Ringer, Christopher Stull, and T. Fleming.

For ROCK CREEK HUNDRED.—Thomas Cramphin, Zadock Magruder, W. Baker, and Allen Bowie.

For SUGAR LOAF HUNDRED.—Francis Deakins, R. Smith, S. Plummer, Z. Waters, and Z. Linthicum.

For BURNT-WOODS HUNDRED.—Ephraim Howard, Charles Warfield, David Moore, John Lawrence, Henry Crawle, and William Hobbs.

For LOWER ANTIETAM HUNDRED.—Thomas Hog, Henry Butler, and Thomas Cramphin.

For LINGANORE HUNDRED.—John Beall, Charles G. Griffith, Nicholas Hobbs, Bazil Dorsey, and William Duvall.

For CONOCOCHEAGUE.—David Jones, Isaac Baker, and Jacob Friend.

For PINEY CREEK HUNDRED.—Jacob Good, John M'Callister, Samuel M'Farren, Abraham Heiter, and John Key.

For LOWER MONOCACY HUNDRED.—Lewis Kemp, John Darnall, Thomas Nowland, and Leonard Smith.

For NORTHWEST HUNDRED.—Samuel Harwood, Peter Becraft, and Richard Beall, of Samuel.

For MARSH HUNDRED.—Charles Swearingen, Eli Williams, James Smith, Richard Davis, Senior, and George Swimley.

For upper part of Potomack Hundred.—Brooke Beall, Samuel West, Nathaniel Offutt, and Alexander Clagett.

For SENECA.—Charles Perry, Richard Crabb, and Gerard, Briscoe.

For PIPE CREEK HUNDRED.—Andrew Bruce, William Winchester, David Schriver, and Nathaniel Norris.

For MANOR HUNDRED.—Wm. Beatty, Joseph Wood, Junior, Azel Waters, John Remsburg, Abraham Hoff, and Valentine Creager.

For upper part of MONOCACY HUNDRED.—Henry Cox, Roger Johnson, and Richard Butler.

For upper part of NEWFOUNDLAND HUNDRED.—Henry Griffith, Richard Brooke, and Henry Gaither, Senior.

For ELIZABETH HUNDRED.—John Stull, Otho Holland Williams, John Swan, and John Rench.

For FREDERICKTOWN HUNDRED.—Phil. Thomas, Thomas Price, Baker Johnson, Peter Hoffman, and Ludwick Weltner.

For FORT FREDERICK HUNDRED.—Ezekiel Cox.

For SUGAR-LAND HUNDRED.—Æneas Campbell, John Fletcher, John Luckett, Alexander Whitaker, and Solomon Simpson.

The said gentlemen are instructed to apply personally, or by deputy, to every freeman in their respective Districts, and to solicit a generous contribution. They are ordered to state accounts of the money received, and to pay it to the Committee of Correspondence, which is hereby appointed to meet at Fredericktown, the 23d day of March next; and they are further ordered to report to the said Committee the names of such persons (if any) who shall refuse to subscribe.

4th. That Messrs. Thomas Johns, William Deakins, Charles Beatty, George Murdock, John Stull, and John Swan, or any one of them, be empowered to contract, in behalf of the Committee of Correspondence, for any quantity of Powder and Lead, to be paid for on the said 23d day of March.

5th. In order that a Committee of Observation may be more conveniently chosen, and a more proper representation of the people may be had, the several Collectors, in each Hundred, are desired to give notice, to those qualified by their estates to vote for Representatives, of some time and place of meeting, in the Hundred, to elect members for a Committee, agreeably to the following regulation:

When the number of taxables exceeds not two hundred, the District shall elect one member; where it exceeds two hundred, and amounts not to more than four hundred, the District shall choose two members; where it exceeds four hundred, the District shall elect three members. The Collectors are ordered to return such Representatives to the Committee of Correspondence, on the said 23d day of March; the Committee, so chosen, shall then meet, and the authority of the present Committee of Observation be dissolved.

6th. Resolved, That Messrs. John Hanson, Charles Beatty, Upton Sheredine, Baker Johnson, Philip Thomas, Jacob Funk, Samuel Beall, Joseph Chapline, John Stull, James Smith, Henry Griffith, Thomas Sprigg Wootton, Richard Brooke, William Deakins, and Thomas Cramphin, or any five of them, shall represent this County at any Provincial Convention to be held at the City of Annapolis, before the second Tuesday of October next.

A Petition, from the people called Dunkers and Menests, was read; they express a willingness freely to contribute their money in support of the common cause of America, but pray an exemption from the Military Exercise, on the score of their religious principles.

Resolved, That this Petition be referred to the consideration of the Committee to be chosen, agreeably to the fifth Resolve. In the mean time it is strictly enjoined that no violence be offered to the person or property of any one, but that all grounds of complaint be referred to the said Committee.

ARCH. BOYD, Clerk.

The Testimony of the people called Quakers, given forth by a Meeting of the Representatives of said people, in PENNSYLVANIA and NEW-JERSEY, held at PHILADELPHIA, the twenty-fourth day of the first month, 1775.

Having considered, with real sorrow, the unhappy contest between the Legislature of Great Britain and the People of these Colonies, and the animosities consequent thereon, we have, by repeated publick advices and private admonitions, used our endeavours to dissuade the members of our Religious Society from joining with the publick Resolutions, promoted and entered into by some of the people, which, as we apprehended, so we now find, have increased contention, and produced great discord and confusion.

The divine principle of grace and truth, which we profess, leads all who attend to its dictates to demean themselves as peaceable subjects, and to discountenance and avoid every measure tending to excite disaffection to the King, as Supreme Magistrate, or to the legal authority of his Government; to which purpose many of the late political writings and addresses to the people appearing to be calculated, we are led, by a sense of duty, to declare our entire disapprobation of them; their spirit and temper being not only contrary to the nature and precepts of the Gospel, but destructive of the peace and harmony of civil society, disqualifying men, in these times of difficulty, for the wise and judicious consideration and promoting of such measures as would be most effectual for reconciling differences, or obtaining the redress of grievances.

From our past experience of the clemency of the King, and his royal ancestors, we have grounds to hope and believe, that decent and respectful addresses, from those who are vested with legal authority, representing the prevailing dissatisfactions, and the cause of them, would avail towards obtaining relief; ascertaining and establishing the just rights of the people, and restoring the publick tranquillity; and we deeply lament that contrary modes of proceeding have been pursued, which have involved the Colonies in confusion; appear likely to produce violence and bloodshed, and threaten the subversion of the constitutional Government, and of that liberty of conscience, for the enjoyment of which our ancestors were induced to encounter the manifold dangers and difficulties of crossing the Seas, and of settling in the wilderness.

We are therefore incited, by a sincere concern for the peace and welfare of our country, publickly to declare against every usurpation of power and authority, in oppo-