Ordered, That the said Letter and Resolve be taken into consideration early to-morrow morning.

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning, eight o’clock.

Tuesday, August 1, 1775.

Met according to adjournment.

John Stevens appeared for Caroline County.
John Moale, for Baltimore County.
Thomas Sim Lee and John Rogers, for Prince George’s County.
Solomon Wright, for Queen Anne’s County.
William Hopper, for Caroline County.
Peter Chaillie, for Worcester County.

On motion, Resolved, That any person or persons who shall hereafter import into this Province any Arms or Ammunition, shall be at liberty to sell the same to the inhabitants for any price they can agree for.

Ordered, That the Hon. Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, Junior, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Robert Goldsborough, John Hall, and Thomas Stone, Esquires, be a Committee to prepare a Letter to the Convention of Virginia, assigning the reasons why this Convention will not accede to their Resolution.

The Committee prepared the following Letter, to wit:

GENTLEMEN: The resolution of your Convention, that no Flour, Wheat, or other Grain, or Provisions of any kind, should be exported from your Colony to any part of the world, after the fifth day of August, came to hand by your express yesterday afternoon. The Delegates from this Province have communicated to this Convention, that the utility and propriety of stopping exports had been fully considered by the Congress, and that they had not thought proper to stop the exports before the tenth day of September. We have received information that the Congress intends to adjourn the beginning of this week, so that this subject; cannot again be brought before them. This Convention, on mature consideration, do not see that the advantages to the common cause, by an immediate stoppage of the export of provisions, could equal the inconveniences and distresses of individuals which would certainly be occasioned thereby, nor that any distress could be brought on the common enemy by our coming into your resolution, without the accession of the Colonies of Pennsylvania and New-York, which cannot be brought about sooner than the tenth of September, as the Convention of New-York will probably rise about the same time as the Congress; and the Assembly of Pennsylvania hath already adjourned. For these reasons we have unanimously resolved not to prohibit exports before that day.

We are, with great respect, your most obedient servants, By order of the Convention:

MATTHEW TILGHMAN, Chairman.

To the Honourable Convention of Virginia.

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning, ten o’clock.

Wednesday, August. 2,1775.

Met according to adjournment.

John Waters appeared for Somerset County.

On motion, Resolved, That a Committee of seven members of this Convention be appointed to consider of a proper mode to be adopted to prevent the inhabitants of this Province being harassed with suits at law, and for laying such restriction on the proceedings of the Courts of Law as may be necessary and expedient in the present circumstances of this Province; and that John Hall, John Rogers, James Tilghman, Thomas Bedingfield Hands, Nicholas Thomas, Joseph Earle, and Jeremiah Townley Chase, be a Committee for the above purpose.

William Hopper appeared for Caroline County.

The Petition of Archibald Campbell and William Lilburn was read the first time, and ordered to lie on the table. (No.5.)

Walter Tilley, Junior, and James Gittings appeared for Baltimore County.

Convention adjourns till to morrow morning, eleven o’clock.

Thursday, August 3, 1775.

Met according to adjournment.

Zadock Purnell and William Morris appeared for Worcester County.

Upon reading the Petition of Archibald Campbell and William Lilburn, and considering the Resolution of the Committee of Saint Mary’s County:

Resolved, That the said Archibald Campbell and William Lilburn have not yet been guilty of a breach of the Resolve of the late Convention, and therefore that no further proceedings be had against them.

On motion, Ordered, That Mr. James Christie, Jun., of Baltimore Town, attend this Convention on Saturday next, to answer a complaint exhibited against him before the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County, and referred by the Continental Congress to this Convention for their determination. (No. 6.)

Colonel Richard Lloyd and Doctor Richard Brooks have leave of absence.

On motion, Resolved, That an alteration be made in the Resolve of the December Convention, relative to the killing of Lamb.

Resolved, That the Resolution of this Province, “ that no person ought to kill Lamb, dropt before the first day of May yearly, or other Sheep, after the first day of January then next, under four years of age,” be repealed so far as relates to killing of Lamb; but it is earnestly recommended that the Continental Resolve respecting the killing of Sheep be most strictly observed.

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning, nine o’clock.

Friday, August 4,1775.

Met according to adjournment.
Jacob Funk, has leave of absence.
Robert Alexander and Charles Ridgely, son of William, appeared for Baltimore County.
Philip Richard Fendall, for Charles County.
William Richardson and Henry Dickinson, for Caroline County.
Upton Sheredine, for Frederick County.

A copy of the Proceedings of a meeting of the Committee of Caroline County, dated August 2d, 1775, were read the first time, and ordered to lie on the table. (No. 7.)

Mr. Gittings and Mr. Turbutt Wright have leave of absence.

It being represented to this Convention that Mr. William Neale is prosecuting a scheme for importing about two hundred barrels of Powder, and that he is willing to dispose of the same to the publick on its arrival, at the rate of sixteen Pounds, common money, per hundred:

Resolved, That on the delivery of two hundred barrels of Gunpowder, or any less quantity, by the said William Neale, he be paid therefor at the said rate, out of the Bills of Credit to be issued by this Convention; and further, that if the said William Neale will import and deliver good and substantial Muskets, Bayonets and Accoutrements, for arming any number, not exceeding five hundred Soldiers, then on the delivery of them be shall be paid a generous price therefor, out of the said Bills of Credit.

Resolved, That this Convention will replace any Arms, Powder, or Lead, that may be delivered to the order of Messrs. Samuel Purviance, Jun., William Smith and David Stewart, or any two of them, by the people of Bermuda, or will pay the just and full value thereof at farthest, as soon as America shall be in a settled state.

Resolved, That if any persons will lend and advance to the publick any sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole four thousand Pounds, common money, and pay the same into the hands of Messrs. Purviance, Smith and Stewart, to be by them laid out in the purchase and importation of Gunpowder and good substantial Muskets, Bayonets and Accoutrements for soldiers, for the use of this Province, the lenders shall be repaid their Money out of the Bills of Credit to be issued; or if Bills of Exchange shall be lent, then the same shall be repaid in the same manner as the other loans of Bills of Exchange to this Convention.

The Petition of Richard Henderson of Bladensburgh, was read the first time, and ordered to lie on the table. (No. 8.)