in the Marine sendee be such as may be hereafter settled by the Council of Safety.

That the following persons be Officers of the said forces, to wit:

Of the Battalion: William Smallwood, Esq., Colonel; Francis Ware, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel; Thomas Price, Esq., First Major; Mordecai Gist, Esq., Second Major.

First Company: John Hawkins Stone, Captain; Daniel Bowie, First Lieutenant; John Kidd, Second Lieutenant; Benjamin Chambers, Ensign.

Second Company: William Hyde, Captain; Benjamin Ford, First Lieutenant, John Beanes, Second Lieutenant; Henry Guiltier, Ensign.

Third Company: Barton Lucas, Captain; William Sterrett, First Lieutenant; Alexander Roxburgh, Second Lieutenant; William Ridgely, Ensign.

Fourth Company: Thomas Eiving, Captain; Joseph Butler, First Lieutenant; Joseph Baxter, Second Lieutenant; Edward Praul, Ensign.

Fifth Company: Nathaniel Ramsey, Captain; Levin Winder, First Lieutenant; Alexander Murray, Second Lieutenant; Walker Muse, Ensign.

Sixth Company: Peter Adams, Captain; Nathaniel Ewing, First Lieutenant; David Plunkett, Second Lieutenant; John Jordan, Ensign.

Seventh Company: John Day Scott, Captain; Thomas Harwood, son of Thomas, First Lieutenant; Thomas Goldsmith, Second Lieutenant; James Peale, Ensign.

Eighth Company: Samuel Smith, Captain; James Campbell, First Lieutenant; Joseph Ford, Second Lieutenant; Bryan Philpot, Ensign.

Company of Light Infantry: George Stricker, Captain; Thomas Smyth, Jun., First Lieutenant; James Ring-gold, Second Lieutenant; Hatch Dent, Third Lieutenant.

Of the Independent Companies.

First Company: Rezin Beall, Captain; Bennett Bracco, First Lieutenant; John Halkerston, Second Lieutenant; Daniel Jenifer Adams, Third Lieutenant.

Second Company: John Gunby, Captain; Uriah Forrest, First Lieutenant; William Bowie, Second Lieutenant; Benjamin Brooks, Third Lieutenant.

Third Company: John Watkins, Captain; Moses Chaille, First Lieutenant; Solomon Long, Second Lieutenant; Ely Dorsey, Third Lieutenant.

Fourth Company: James Hindman, Captain; William Goldsborough, First Lieutenant; Archibald Anderson, Second Lieutenant; Edward Hindman, Third Lieutenant.

Fifth Company: John Allen Thomas, Captain; John Steward, First Lieutenant; John Davidson, Second Lieutenant; Henry Neale, Third Lieutenant.

Sixth Company: Lemuel Barrett, Captain; Thomas Woolford, First Lieutenant; John Eccleston, Second Lieutenant; Hooper Hudson, Third Lieutenant.

Seventh Company: Edward Veazy, Captain; William Harrison, First Lieutenant; Samuel T. Wright, Second Lieutenant; Edward De Courcy, Third Lieutenant.

Company of Artillery at Baltimore Town: Nathaniel Smith, Captain; William Woolsey, First Lieutenant; Alexander Furnival, Second Lieutenant; George Kee-pott, Third Lieutenant.

Company of Artillery at ANNAPOLIS.

That Charles Wallace, Esq., be Paymaster of all the Land Forces (and Marines, when in land service,) raised or to be raised in this Province, in the pay thereof, and shall be entitled to the pay of forty dollars per calendar month.

That Gabriel Duvall, Esq., be Mustermaster of the said Land Forces and Commissary of all warlike stores appropriated for the use of the regular service of this Province; and shall be entitled to the pay of fifty dollars per calendar month.

That commissions issue to all the said Officers, in the forms prescribed by this Convention; and that any of the said Officers may be suspended from the exercise of their offices, respectively, or displaced, and new commissions may issue to any other person, at the will and pleasure of this or any future Convention, or, in the recess of Convention, by the Council of Safety, in the name and by the authority of the Convention; and, in case of the death of any Officer, or on his refusal to act, some other person may be appointed, and, as aforesaid, commissioned in his stead by the Convention or Council of Safety.

That Recruiting Orders be delivered to each Captain in the Battalion of the Independent Companies, and Companies of Artillery and Marines, together with his commission, as follows:

Instructions for Inlisting Men in the Service of MARYLAND.

1. You are to inlist no man who is not able-bodied, healthy, and a good marcher, nor such whose attachment to the liberties of America you have cause to suspect. Young, hearty, robust men, who are tied by birth, or family connexions, or property, to this country, and are well practised in the use of fire-arms, are, by much, to be preferred.

2. You will have great regard to moral character, so briety in particular.

3. You are not to inlist any servant imported, nor, with out the leave of the master, any apprentice.

4. Those who engage in the service shall be inlisted according to the form prescribed by this Convention.

5. You shall appoint such men Sergeants and Corporals as recommend themselves by their ability, activity, and diligence; and you are, also, to appoint the Drummer and Fifer to your Company.

6. You will use all diligence in completing your Company, and report (if a Captain in the Battalion) to your Colonel, (if a Captain in an Independent Company, or in the Artillery, or Marines.) to the Council of Safety.

7. You are to be allowed seven shillings and six pence per week for the subsist of recruits, till they arrive at their station.

8. You will take notice that the Colonel of the Battalion, or a Field-Officer to be appointed by him, is to inspect your men, and reject such as do not answer to your instructions.

9. You shall be allowed seven shillings and six pence for every man you inlist, who shall be past, on inspection, as effective, besides (he subsist money mentioned before, and your pay.

10. You will furnish the subalterns of your Company with a copy of these instructions, who are to exert themselves in recruiting.

By order:

G. DUVALL, Clerk

To. . . . . , Captain of the. . . . .

That all non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the said Battalion, Independent Companies, and Companies of Artillery and Marines, be inlisted by their voluntarily subscribing an engagement in the following words, to wit: "We, whose names are hereto subscribed, do voluntarily inlist ourselves Soldiers, (or Matrosses, or in the Marines, as the case may happen to be.) to serve as such during the present dispute between Great Britain and America, unless sooner discharged by order of the Convention, or Council of Safety, of Maryland, for the time being, hereby subjecting ourselves to such rules and regulations as are or shall be made by the Convention of Maryland for regulating and governing the forces in the pay of this Province. Witness our hands."

That all non-Commissioned Seamen and Landsmen, retained in the pay of this Province for the Naval service, shall be entered by their voluntarily subscribing the following engagement, to wit: "We, whose names are subscribed, do voluntarily enter ourselves as Seamen, (or Landsmen, as the case may be,) in the naval service of the Province of Maryland, for the full term of six months next following, unless sooner discharged by order of the Convention, or Council of Safety, of Maryland, or by the captain or other chief officer of the ship or vessel in which we may be employed; hereby subjecting ourselves to such rules and regulations as are or shall be made by the Convention of this Province for regulating and governing the forces in the pay thereof. Witness our hands, the dates affixed to our names, respectively."

That one month's pay be advanced to each person who shall be so inlisted or entered as aforesaid, and that, over and above the pay of the non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the Battalion, Independent Companies, and Companies of Artillery and Marines, each of them be yearly found and allowed, at the expense of this Province,