Captain Henry Shaaf is appointed to have the Cannon at the Hill removed to Fell’s Point immediately.

Ordered, That Mr. David McLure deliver to Captain William Galbraith twenty pounds of Gunpowder, and Mr. H. Courtenay forty pounds Lead.

Ordered, That Mr. William Spear deliver Sergeant William Cornwall, of Captain Nathaniel Smith’s Company, two quarter-barrels of Gunpowder, for the use of the Troops.

Ordered, That Mr. James Calhoun, or Mr. David McLure, deliver to Mr. J. Hall half a pound of Powder and two pounds of Lead.

A Certificate was granted to William Lawrence, master of the Sloop Otwell, that he had landed three hundred and twenty bushels of Com, and six barrels of Pork, shipped by the Honourable Robert Carter, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

The Independent Company having received orders from the Committee to disarm such persons as have refused to enroll as Militia, returned the following Arms, which were valued as follows:

No. 1, a Fusee, the property of Melchior Keener, valued at one Pound ten Shillings, delivered to John Hughes; No. 2, a Fusee, the property of Thomas Brereton, valued at two Pounds five Shillings, delivered to John Caldwell; No. 3, a Fusee, the property of William Smith, (Ropemaker,) valued at one Pound ten Shillings; No. 4, a Fusee, valued at one Pound; No. 5, a Fusee, valued at one Pound; No. 6, a Fusee, valued at fifteen Shillings; No. 7, a Fusee, valued at fifteen Shillings; No. 8, a Fowling-Piece, the property of Alexander Lawson, valued at three Pounds ten Shillings, delivered to J. Sterrett; No. 9, a Musket, the property of John Clausey, valued at one Pound ten Shillings, delivered to G. Vaughan; No. 3, a brass Blunderbuss, the property of Doctor John Stevenson, valued at three Pounds, and No. 1, a brass Blunderbuss, the property of John Ashburner, valued at two Pounds ten Shillings, delivered on board the Defence.

Resolved, That the Schooner Resolution be fitted out as a Tender for the Ship Defence, on the present emergency; and that Captain William Wand be Captain, Captain Thomas Moore First Lieutenant, Captain George Wise Second Lieutenant, and Captain William Paddison Master.

Messrs. Robert Purviance, George Woolsey, and David Stewart, be directed to carry this Resolve into immediate execution.

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

At a meeting of the Committee, March 9, 1776:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Vice-Chairman, Jeremiah T. Chase, Thomas Harrison, William Buchanan, J. Merry-man, William Aisquith, James Calhoun, J. Cradock, A. Britton, John Boyd.

Messrs. Andrew Stigar and Engleheart Yieser appeared, and declared that they would relinquish their contract of yesterday, not being able to get the Provisions cooked; whereupon Messrs. J. Merryman and James Calhoun were appointed to contract with people to cook; who report that they had agreed with the two Mrs. Rosses.

The said gentlemen are appointed to superintend the Provision service.

Captain Thomas Hammond, of the Anne Arundel County Militia, applied for Provisions for a Company of one hundred men, stationed on the south side of the River Patapsco.

Accordingly he was furnished with a tierce of Beef and a side of fresh Beef.

The following Letter was sent to Captain Nicholson:

Baltimore, March 9, 1776.

SIR: I am directed by the Committee of Baltimore to inform you that, should the tenders escape you before you get down to Mr. Hudson’s ship, and join the Otter, it is their opinion it would be improper for you to attack them all together; and that, if you think there is a probability of their coming to attack you, it would be most advisable for you to return to Whetstone Point or Fell’s Point, to be ready to protect the town, and remain there until you are properly enabled to attack the whole united force. All the vessels at Whetstone are getting ballasted, and will be ready for sinking when you see a necessity for doing it.

Per order of the Committee.

SAMUEL PURVIANCE, Chairman.

The Committee having received information by Paul Miller, that the Otter Sloop is aground on the Bodkin Shoals, and that Captain Nicholson desired a reinforcement of men, Major Gist is directed to despatch empty Vessels to lighten his Ship, to be under the direction of Captain Nicholson.

A Letter from Captain Nicholson was just received, informing them of retaking Mr. Hudson’s Ship, and desiring Vessels to be sent to lighten her, but that being already done, which he could not know when he wrote, the Committee thought it needless to send more.

Nine o’clock, P. M.

An Express just arrived from North-Point with information that the Otter and her Tenders and Prizes had left the mouth of the River, and stood down the Bay; on which William Adams was instantly despatched with an Express to the Council of Safety, giving them the information.

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

The Committee met, Sunday morning, six o’clock.

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Vice-Chairman, Andrew Buchanan, William Buchanan, Gist Vaughan, Thomas Harrison, C. Ridgely, (of William,) J. Cradock, John Moale, John Smith, Thomas Sollers, J. Gittings, William Aisquith, Jeremiah T. Chase.

An Express arrived from the Council of Safety, informing the Committee that the Otter and her Prizes and Tenders appeared off Annapolis about half-past three o’clock, and, at half-past four, sent a Boat with a Flag to the Go-vernour, demanding fresh Provisions.

Captain James Bosley was ordered by the Committee to seize all the Arms in Gunpowder, Upper Hundred.

Nine o’clock.

Captain James Nicholson, Commander of the Ship Defence, appeared before the Committee, and reported that his Ship had returned to Fell’s Point, having retaken several Prizes, which were come up with him.

Mr. Isaac Hudson, who was taken on board the Molly, Captain Lawrence, appeared before the Committee, and gave in his deposition of being taken by the Tenders of the Otter, on Wednesday, the 6th, and retaken by the, Defence on the 9th.

William Wardin appeared before the Committee to give an account, on oath, of his capture by the Otter; which deposition is filed.

Captain Samuel Owings and Captain William Galbraith returned their Enrollment.

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

At a meeting of the Committee, March 11, 1776:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Vice-Chairman, Andrew Buchanan, Thomas Harrison, Z. McCubbin, C. Ridgely, (of William,) John Cradock, John Merryman, Jeremiah T. Chase, John E. Howard, James Gittings, Thomas Sollers, Gist Vaughan, William Aisquith, Abraham Britton, J. Sterrett, Thomas Gist, John Boyd, Darby Lux.

With the concurrence of Charles Carroll, Barrister, Thomas Smythe, and Benjamin Rumsey, Esquires, three of the Council of Safety of this Province, the Committee have agreed to pay Mr. Cummins ten Pence for each Ration to be supplied by him for the Militia now assembled, or that may occasionally be assembled, at Baltimore Town. The Rations for each man a week are to each to consist of the following articles, viz: Eight pounds of Beef, or, in lieu thereof, seven pounds of Pork, ten pounds and one-half of Bread or Flour, seven gills of Rum, seven pints of Small Beer, one gill of Salt, one and a half pounds of Candles to each Company, in lieu of the Rations allowed by the late Convention.

Mr. Cummins agrees to supply the Rations on the above terms.

Captain Benjamin Nicholson is ordered to disarm those persons in the upper part of Back-River Hundred who, when duly applied to, shall refuse to enroll and associate.

Orders were given to Colonels Aquila Hall and Benjamin Rumsey, for fifty Pounds each, from the Chairman to Mr. Robert Purviance, for the use of their respective Battalions.

A Letter from the Council of Safety was just received, desiring a part of their Committee to attend their President to-morrow morning, at eight o’clock, at Mrs. Ramsay’s, to confer on a matter of much importance.

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