and they apprehended the mode adopted was different from the intention of the Convention, and had caused great uneasiness:

The Committee taking the same into consideration,

Do Resolve, That the inhabitants of said Hundred are sufficient in number to compose two companies of at least forty men, and that the said inhabitants do accordingly enroll themselves, and, when they have so done, that they proceed to the choice of Officers, by ballot, for two companies, and return the same to this Committee, and that the said election be held the 6th of April.

Captain John Cockey is appointed to seize the Arms of the Non-Associators and Non-Enrollers in Back River, Upper Hundred; and Captain Thomas Rutter those in Middlesex Hundred.

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

At a meeting of the Committee, Tuesday, March 26, 1776:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Deputy-Chairman, Andrew Buchanan, John Merryman, James Calhoun, William Aisquith, John Smith, John Boyd, Thomas Harrison

Messieurs Hercules Courtenay, Daniel Lawrence, Isaac Vanbibber, William Spear, and George Wells, or any three or more of them, are appointed by this Committee to value, upon oath, the Schooner Resolution, whereof William Wand is Master, and return the same to this Committee.

Mr. James Calhoun is directed to pay ten Shillings for two Chairs, for the use of the Committee, out of the money in his hands.

At a meeting of the Committee on Monday, April 2, 1776:

Present: William Lux, Chairman pro tempore, William Buchanan, Thomas Harrison, C. Ridgely, (of William,) John Cradock, George Risteau, James Calhoun, Thomas Sollers, Thomas Rutter, J. Sterrett, John Smith, John Boyd, Secretary pro tempore.

Application being made by Mr. Hugh Young for liberty to load his Schooner Peggy with the produce of the Province, the same was granted, in consequence of an order of the honourable Council of Safety.

The Committee having received directions from the Council of Safety to suspend all further proceedings relative to the Schooner Resolution, orders are given to Messieurs Robert Purviance, David Stewart, and George Woolsey, to desist from the same until further orders.

Captain William Buchanan returned his Enrollment, containing seventy-six, officers included, which was examined and approved of.

Captain Charles Carnan also returned his Enrollment, which was examined and approved of.

Mr. Calhoun is ordered to pay Abraham England fifty Shillings, being in full to this day for his services as Doorkeeper and Messenger to this Committee.

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

The Committee met, April 3, 1776:

Present: William Lux, Chairman pro tempore, James Calhoun, John Smith, Thomas Harrison, John Boyd, Darby Lux, John Cockey.

Captain Job Garritson returned the following, seized by him from Non-Associators and Non-Enrollers in . . . . . . Hundred:

One Fusee, the property of Edward Wigley, valued at one Pound ten Shillings; one Fusee, the property of Isaac Wigley, valued at one Pound ten Shillings; one Fusee, the property of Thomas Harryman, valued at ten Shillings; one Fusee, the property of Thomas Graves, valued at one Pound fifteen Shillings; one Fusee, the property of John Graves, valued at one Pound fifteen Shillings; which were severally valued, on oath, by David Stewart and George Woolsey, at the prices affixed to each.

Captain Frederick Deams returned an Enrollment of a Company in Middlesex, containing eighty-three persons, officers included.

Mr. Robert Holliday produced an Account for Wagon Hire for bringing Powder from Otter Point, which was allowed, and an order given on the Treasurer.

Mr. John Cockey also produced an Account of three Pounds two Shillings and six Pence, for the same service, which was allowed, and an order given on the Treasurer.

Captain George Wells’s Enrollment, containing . . . . . persons, officers included, was delivered in, examined, and approved of.

The following Certificate was returned to the honourable Council of Safety:

These are to certify, that the following Returns of Companies of Militia in Baltimore County, have been made to this Committee, viz:

1. William Buchanan, Captain; John Smith, First Lieutenant; Robert Alexander, Second Lieutenant; George Woolsey, Ensign. Containing seventy-six men.

2. John Sterrett, Captain; Bernard Eichelberger, First Lieutenant; Hugh Young, Second Lieutenant; Daniel Bowly, Ensign. Containing eighty-two.

3. Henry Shaafe, Captain; Brittenham Dickenson, First Lieutenant; Robert Moore, Second Lieutenant; Caleb Shields, Ensign. Containing sixty-five.

4. William Galbraith, Captain; James Toole, First Lieutenant; John Deaver, Second Lieutenant; Joseph Gotroux, Ensign. Containing fifty-eight.

5. William Richardson, Captain; John McCabe, First Lieutenant; George Servile Douglas, Second Lieutenant; Fergus McIllroy, Ensign. Containing seventy-one.

6. George Wells, Captain; James Morgan, First Lieu tenant; John Hayman, Second Lieutenant; James Foster, Ensign. Containing sixty-six.

The above Companies, with Captain Zachariah McCub-bin’s and Captain James Cox’s, who have received commissions, we recommend to be formed into a Battalion.

Attested:

GEORGE LUX, Secretary.

At a meeting of the Committee, April 8, 1776: Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, and eight Members.

Mr. Alexander Lawson having applied to the Committee, and informed them that he could make room at his house near Baltimore Town, for opening such part of the publick Records as may be necessary for doing the ordinary business of the office, and desiring to know the sense of the Com-mittee, whether he should open them in his house:

The Committee determined that he might open and continue them there until further orders; and that, in the mean time, Mr. Lawson should keep the boxes and chests in constant readiness for repacking and moving them speedily on any emergency.

Mr. Lawson having informed the Committee that he intended shortly to remove from this County to another part of the Province, and requesting a Certificate of his having delivered up his Arms agreeable to the regulations of the Convention respecting Non-Associators; and further desiring that the Committee should, before his removal, tax him as a Non-Associator, in the manner prescribed by the rules of the Convention:

The Committee agreed that he should be assessed ten Pounds for the present year, commencing from the 15th of September last, and that, upon his paying it, the Chairman shall give him the Certificate required.

Mr. Lawson accordingly paid the sum of ten Pounds into the hands of the Chairman, who then gave him the Certificate required.

At a meeting of the Committee, April 14, 1776, nine o’clock, P. M.:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Chairman, William Lux, Deputy-Chairman, Benjamin Nicholson, William Buchanan, John Smith, John Boyd, James Calhoun, J. Sterrett, Thomas Harrison.