and Mr. Stewart stands accountable for delivering a certificate from the Committee of such District as it may be lodged with for security.

A Letter from Mr. George Dent, Chairman of the Committee at Potomack, relative to the due importation of some parcels of Goods sent there by Mr. Johnson Gildart, was directed to be answered by the Chairman.

At a meeting of the Committee, on Monday, July 24, 1775:

Present: William Smith, in the Chair, Archibald Buchanan, William Buchanan, Andrew Buchanan, Robert Alexander, David McClennan, George Lindenberger, Cornelius Clopper, B. Dickenson, John McClennan, Richard Lemmon, Mayberry Helms, Mark Alexander, Ab. Britton, James Calhoun, Benjamin Griffith, John Moale, John R. Holliday, Samuel Owings, John Merryman, Thomas Harrison, Benjamin Levy, William Richardson, William Lux, Secretary.

The Committee resumed the consideration of the motion relative to Ashburnter & Place and Johnson Gildart, but thought it best to refer it further to Monday, the 31st, and then adjourned to the afternoon.

The Committee met according to adjournment:

Present: Samuel Purviance, in the Chair, the same Members attended, as, also, Captain Charles Ridgely, David Stewart, John Smith, John Deaver, Charles Ridgely, Jun., Joshua Hall, William Neill, Edward Norwood, Hercules Courtenay, Andrew S. Ennnlls, George Woolgey, William Worthington, Nicholas Norwood, Daniel Hughes, William Goodwin, John Boyd, Jeremiah T. Chase, John Cromwell.

Captain Warring, of the Ship Totness, appeared, and desired liberty to land five Convicts, imported in the said Ship, and consigned to Ashburner & Place; but the Committee declined to give any opinion on the matter, as the proceedings against James Gildart, who is the owner, are already published.

Mr. Robert Christie appeared in behalf of Mr. James Christie, and requested that the Guard attending on Mr. James Christie might be dismissed on security being given, to the satisfaction of the Committee, for his appearance before the Committee or Provincial Convention, when thereunto required, and that he would not depart the Province without their permission.

Which being debated, it was resolved to accept five Securities, by a majority of twenty-one to fourteen; and, accordingly, the following Security was entered into and signed, viz:

"I do solemnly hereby engage not to depart this Province without the permission and consent of the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County, or the Provincial Convention, first had and obtained. As witness my hand, this 24th day of July, 1775.

"JAMES CHBISTIE JUN

"Witness: "ROBERT ALEXANDER,

"ARCHIBALD BUCHANAN."

"We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do hereby undertake and solemnly engage that James Christie, of Baltimore Town, shall not depart this Province without the permission and consent of the Committee of Observation for Baltimore County, or the Provincial Convention, first had and obtained, but shall stay and abide the determination and sentence that shall or may be pronounced against him by the next Provincial Convention, for the heinous offence committed by him against the community; and in case the said James Christie shall depart this Province without such leave, we, and each of us, do hereby voluntarily agree to submit to the same punishment that would have been inflicted on the said James Christie if he had not departed. As witness our hands, this 24th day of July, 1775.

"ROBERT CHRISTIE, JUN.,

"A. STENHOUSE,

"HENRY STEVENSON,

"Witness: W. SMITH."

At a meeting of the Committee, July 31, 1775: Present, Mr. Samuel Purviance, Chairman, and fifteen Members.

The question relating to Messrs. Ashburner & Place, and Mr. Johnson Gildart, was postponed.

At a meeting of the Committee, August 7, 1775:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Secretary, James Sterrett, John Smith, James Calhoun, John Sterrett, Benjamin Levy, Cornelius Clopper, James Cox, Edward Talbot, Abram Vanbibber, David McClennan, William Spear, David Stewart, Benjamin Griffith, Isaac Grist, John McClennan, Barnet Eichelberger, Thomas Jones.

The Committee resumed the consideration of the question relating to Messrs. Ashburner & Place, and Mr. Johnson Gildart, but there being but few Members present, and the question being of very great importance, it was thought most advisable to refer it to the determination of the Provincial Convention.

At a meeting of the Committee, on Monday, August 14, 1775:

Present: Samuel Purvance, Chairman, George Woolsey, Daniel Hughes, W. Hallock, George Lindenberger, Benjamin Griffith, Cornelius Clopper, James Cox, David McClellan, John McClennan, Benjamin Levy, Richard Lemmon, Isaac Grist, John Boyd.

Captain Thomas Gerrald, of the Ship Dulany, from Havre-de-Grace, reported his cargo, swore, and subscribed.

At a meeting of the Committee on Monday, August 21, 1775: Present, Samuel Purviance, Jun., Chairman, and twenty-four Members.

Captain James Curry, of the Ship Rose, from Londonderry, reported his ship, signed, and swore.

The Maryland Associalion was laid before the Committee, and signed by those present according to their Hundreds, and the following persons are appointed to carry the Association to the people for signing:

For BALTIMORE, WEST: George Lindenberger and James Cox.

For BACK-RIVER, LOWER: Benjamin Buck and Job Garre tson.

For BALTIMORE TOWN, EAST.: Benjamin Griffith.

For DEPTFORD: Isaac Grist.

For BACK-RIVER, UPPER: T. C. Dcye, D. Lux, James.

Cockey, Benjamin Nicholson, and J. Philpot. For PATAPSCO, UPPER: Zach,. McCubbin, and Charles Ridgely, Son of William.

For PATAPSCO, LOWER: Thomas Sollers apd William Wilkinson.

For MIDDLE-RIVER, UPPER: Gist Vaughan, Benjamin. Rogers, and Nicholas Merryman. For MIDDLE-RIVER, LOWER: Walter Tolley, Sen., Ab.Britton, and Nicholas Britton.

For SOLDIERS' DELIGHT: T. Gist, G. Risteau, and J. E. Howard.

For MIDDLESEX: T. Rutter, M. Helm, and Thomas Johnson.

For DELAWARE: John Welsh and Rezin Hammond. For NORTH: Jeremiah Johnson, Stephen Gill, Jnn., J.Hall, and Elisha Dorsey.

For GUNPOWDER, UPPER: Walter Tolley, Jun., James Gittings, and Jesse Bussey.

For MINE-RUN: Dixon Stansbury, Jun., John Stevenson, and Edmund Stansbury.

For WESTMINSTER: Andrew Buchanan, John Moale, William Goodwin, and J. McClellan.

At a meeting of the Committee of Observation, for Baltimore County, on Monday, August 28, 1775:

Present: William Smith, Vice-Chairman, William Buchanan, John Smith, Robert Alexander, Dr. John Boyd, William Spear, George Woolsey, Dr. William Lyon, James Calhoun, Robert Buchanan, John Philpot, Hercules Courtenay, T. Jones, William NeilI, Benjamin Levy, D. Bowley.

Resolved, That the following Notice be published in the Baltimore Papers.

"Notice is hereby given, that agreeable to a Resolution of the late Provincial Convention, an Election will be held at the Court-House in Baltimore Town, on Tuesday, the 12th day of September next, at which time the Freeholders, or other Freemen, having a visible estate of forty pounds sterling, or qualified by law to vote for Burgesses, are requested to attend, to elect a Committee of Observation, to consist of thirty-seven of the most discreet and sensible of the said Freemen. And on the said day, and the next, an election will also be held, to choose by ballot, five