Colonel Malcom ordered to arrest Henry Dawkins and others, suspected of counterfeiting,

Return by the Committee of New town of Officers elected for that Township,

Committee to prepare an Amendment to the Militia law, so far as respects the disarmed Non-Associators,

Male inhabitants between sixteen and fifty years of age, who have withdrawn themselves from the City since the 1st of June last, required to return without delay, with their arms and accoutrements,

Directions for Captain Cregier, of the Armed Schooner General Putnam,

Examination of witnesses on the complaint against Thomas Wooley,

Wooley directed to be confined in the Jail of Queen’s County,

Letter from General Washington: The pay of the Militia, and the sale of Tea,

Regulations respecting persons who are disarmed on account of their inimical principles,

Report of Committee on General Washington’s Letter, on the subject of having the Militia in readiness in case of any sudden emergency,

Letter from the Council of Safety,

Boat sent down to reconnoitre and bring intelligence of the Man-of-War,

Express sent by water and another by land to Elk, to hasten down the Powder and Arms belonging to the Province,

Publick Records of the County to be immediately packed in chests, in order for their removal to a place of safety,

Breastwork ordered to be thrown up immediately at the point below Jesse Hollings-worth’s,

All the light vessels in the Harbour to be immediately carried down to Whetstone, to be sunk in the Channel to prevent the Vessels of War from coming up,

Information received that the Man-of-War has passed Annapolis, and is standing up the Bay,

Return of Arms taken from persons who have refused to enrol as Militia,

Committee to fit out the Schooner Resolution as a tender to the Ship Defence, on the present emergency,

Letter to Captain Nicholson: He must not risk an action with all the enemy’s vessels; if they prepare to attack him, he must return, to be ready to protect the Town,

Express from North-Point, with information that the Otter, with her tenders and prizes, had left the River and stood down the Bay,

Express from the Council of Safety, that the Otter was off Annapolis, and had sent a flag to the Governour, demanding Provisions,

Captain Nicholson ordered to disarm those in Back River Hundred, who shall refuse to enrol and associate,

Council of Safety requests a conference with the Committee on a matter of much importance,

Letter to the Delegates in Congress, requesting the Continental Troops in Cumberland and York Counties may be ordered to march to Baltimore on the requisition of the Committee,

Letter from Captain Nicholson, suggesting the immediate necessity of sinking the Vessels in the Channel at Whetstone-Point,

Captain Phillips directed to attend immediately to the sinking of them,

Thanks to Captain Nicholson for his resolute defence of Baltimore Town, when invaded by piratical robbers,

Committee to value the Vessels to be sunk at Whetstone-Point,

Instructions to Nathaniel Smith and John Fulford, Captains of the two Companies of Artillery in the Province,

Committee informed by Robert Brown, who had been a prisoner on board the Otter, that Captain Squires said he would burn Baltimore,

List and value of twenty-one Vessels at Whetstone-Point, intended to be sunk there in the Narrows,

Return of sundry Arms seized from persons who had refused to enrol in Back River, Upper Hundred, by Captain Benjamin Nicholson,

David Stewart permitted to transport twenty-five chests of Tea to the head of Elk,

Captain Garritson directed to seize all the firearms belonging to non-enrollers of Back River,

Arms belonging to George Fitzhugh and Walter Dulany, seized by Captain Bosley, returned to the Committee,

Captain Cockey appointed to seize the Arms of the Non-Associators in Back River, Upper Hundred, and Captain Rutter those in Middlesex Hundred,

Return by Captain Garritson of Arms seized by him from Non-Associators,

Returns of Companies for Baltimore County, certified to the Committee of Safety,

Alexander Lawson, a Non-Associator, permitted to open and retain possession of the publick Records,

Letter from the Virginia Convention, enclosing intercepted Letters to Governour Eden,

Letter to the President of Congress, with the intercepted Letters from Virginia,

Committee to wait on the Council of Safety, respecting the advices from Virginia,

All Non-Associators and Non-Enrollers in Middle River, Lower, Soldiers' Delight, and Patapsco, Upper Hundreds, directed to be disarmed,

Letter from the President of Congress, requesting the apprehension of Alexander Ross,

Papers of Alexander Ross secured,

The Instructions to Captain Samuel Smith, for the arrest of Governour Eden, declared by Mr. Purviance to have been given by himself, without consulting any member of the Committee,

Statement in writing delivered by Mr. Purviance,

Conduct of Mr. Purviance disavowed by the Committee, who declare that at the same time they believe he was actuated by the best motives,

Mr. Purviance, Chairman, and Mr. Lux, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, ordered by the Council of Safety to attend the Council on Monday, the 22d instant,

The Committee agree they may attend, though the Council is not justified in issuing the order,

George Lux, Clerk of the Committee, required to attend the Council of Safety, with certain papers,

Letter to the Council of Safety, requesting payment to the persons who fitted out the Schooner Resolution,

Thomas Constable convicted of offences tending to disunite the good people of the Province in their opposition to the illegal measures of Great Britain,

Captains Bowen and Mercer appointed to disarm the Non-Associators and Non-Enrollers in Patapsco, Lower, and Back River, Lower, Hundreds,

Council met at Annapolis,

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer chosen President, and Gabriel Duvall appointed Clerk,

Registers and Clerks of the Provincial Court, and of Anne Arundel County, required to furnish a list of their Record Books, and to prepare for the removal of the Records,

Committee to prepare a Chart of the mouth of the Severn,