a new hat, short coat, waistcoat, pair of breeches, and hunting-shirt; and out of their pay there may be reasonable stoppages for necessary shirts, shoes, and stockings.

That the uniform of the Land Forces and Marines be hunting-shirts; the hunting-shirts of the Marines to be blue, and those of the Land Forces to be of other colours.

That the ordinary stations of the said Land Forces be as follow:

That five Companies of the said Battalion, together with the Company of Light Infantry, be stationed at the City of Annapolis, and the other three Companies thereof at Baltimore town.

That five Companies of the troops, to consist of one hundred men each, be allotted for the Eastern Shore.

That one Company thereof be stationed in Worcester County; one Company thereof in Somerset County; one Company thereof in Dorchester County; one Company thereof in Talbot County; and that one-half of the remaining Company thereof be stationed in Queen Anne's County, and the other half in Kent County.

That one Company of the remainder of the said troops, to consist of one hundred men each, be stationed in St. Mary's County; and that one-half of the other Company be stationed in Calvert County, and the other half in Charles County.

One Company of Artillery at the City of Annapolis, and the other at Baltimore town.

But the Council of Safety may, in their discretion, more particularly point out the stations of any of the said Independent Companies or Companies of Artillery; or may, from time to time, order any of the said Companies to change their stations with each other; or, in case of urgent necessity, may change the stations of, or order any of the forces in the pay of this Province to join and act together, or order any part of the said forces to the relief or assistance of the Colony of Virginia, the three lower Counties on Delaware, or Province of Pennsylvania; the said Council of Safety, in the recess of Convention, having the supreme direction of the said troops.

That the Council of Safety contract for supplying the rations for the said Land Forces on the best terms, the contractors giving good and sufficient security to comply with their contracts.

That every Field and Commissioned Officer in the Land Forces shall, within one month after the acceptance of his commission, and before he shall receive any pay as an Officer, before some one of the Council of Safely, or some Justice of the Peace, take and subscribe an oath, which shall be endorsed and certified on the back of his commission, in the following words, to wit: "I, A. B., do swear, that I will well and truly execute my office according to the within commission, and the trust reposed in me, according to the best of my power and ability; and that I will disband and lay down my arms whenever I shall be ordered so to do by the Convention of Maryland for the time being, or any authority derived under it. So help me God"

That the Council of Safety, or any one member thereof, on the application of any person who is detained as having entered or been inlisted as aforesaid in the service of this Province, or on the application of any person in his behalf, within twenty days after his having been detained as aforesaid, may and shall, with all convenient speed, inquire and examine into the manner of such entering or inlistment; and, if it shall appear that such person did not enter or inlist voluntarily, or was fraudulently induced to enter or inlist, then the Council of Safety, or such member thereof as aforesaid, shall discharge such person.

That such of the said forces as the said Council of Safety shall approve, be armed with rifles, and the residue of them be armed and accoutred, as soldiers are usually armed and accoutred, with the publick arms already belonging to this Province, and arms to be provided at the publick expense, as soon as they can be procured; and, in the mean time, such who cannot be provided with publick arms may use their own fire-locks; and every man who shall find his own rifle shall be allowed, at the rate of twenty shillings by the year, for the use thereof; and those who shall find other fire-locks for their own use shall be allowed, each, at the rate of fifteen shillings per year, for the use of such fire-locks.

That, if any officer or soldier of the Regular Forces, Minute-Men, or Militia, in the service of this Province, shall lose a limb, or be otherwise maimed or hurt, so as to be rendered incapable of earning a livelihood, this Province will make provision for the comfortable support of such officer or soldier.

That such sums of money, as may be necessary to provide houses for the said troops during the winter season, be, by the permission and allowance of the Council of Safety, advanced, out of the Treasuries of the respective Shores on which such troops are stationed, by the commanding officer of the said Battalion and Captains of the said Independent Companies, to be by them, respectively, laid out in providing the said houses.

That the said Treasurers, respectively, keep account of such moneys, charging the said City of Annapolis, Town of Baltimore, and Counties aforesaid, with the sums of money respectively advanced for the purposes aforesaid j which sums of money shall, hereafter, be assessed upon the said City, Town, and Counties, to which the same are, respectively, advanced, above the proportion of the said City, Town, and Counties, in the general tax.

That such bedding, and covering, and fuel, as the Council of Safety shall judge fit and proper, be provided for the said troops, at the Provincial expense.

That proper tents and camp utensils be prodded by the Council of Safety for the said troops, at the expense of this Province, the said tents to be used as soon as the season will permit.

Mr. Johnson brings in and delivers to Mr. President a Report from the Committee appointed to report Rules and Regulations for the government of the Forces to be raised in this Province; which was read, and considered, and agreed to, as follows:

Rules for regulating and governing the Forces to be raised and employed in the service of the Province of MARYLAND.

FOR THE LAND FORCES.

ART. 1. It is earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers to attend Divine service, when their situation will permit; and all officers and soldiers who shall behave irreverently at any place of Divine worship, shall, if commissioned officers, be brought before a Court-Martial, there to be publickly and severely reprimanded by the President; if a non-commissioned officer or soldier shall so offend, he shall, for the first offence, forfeit one day's pay, and for the second, and every after offence, he shall not only forfeit the like sum, but be confined for any time not exceeding twenty-four hours.

2.Whatever commissioned or non-commissioned officer or soldier shall use any profane oath or execration, shall incur the penalties expressed in the preceding article. And whatsoever commissioned or non-commissioned officer or soldier shall practise any species of gaming, shall pay such fine or suffer such punishment as may be adjudged.

3. Any officer or soldier who shall behave himself with contempt or disrespect towards the Colonel or other chief officer of the land forces in the pay of this Province, or shall speak false words, tending to his hurt or dishonour, shall be punished according to the nature and degree of his offence.

4. Any officer or soldier who shall utter any words tending to raise a mutiny, or shall endeavour to cause any mutiny or make any mutinous assemblies, shall be punished according to the nature and degree of his offence.

5. Any officer or soldier who shall excite, cause, or join in, any actual mutiny in the battalion, or in any company in the pay of this Province, or in any party, post, detachment, or guard, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as may be adjudged.

6. Any officer or soldier who, being present at a mutiny, does not use his utmost endeavours to suppress the same, or, coming to the knowledge of any mutiny or in tended mutiny, does not, without delay, give information thereof to his commanding or some superior officer, shall be punished according to the nature and degree of his offence.

7. Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or draw, or offer to draw, or shall lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, or shall disobey any lawful commands of