Commissions issued to Officers in Caroline, Harford, Queen Anne, Frederick, Somerset, Worcester, Talbot, and Dorchester, Counties,

Brigs Fortune and Rogers, and Schooner Ninety, ordered to Annapolis, to receive from the Council of Safety Instructions and Sailing Orders,

Jesse Hollingsworth and others, requested to raise, with all convenient speed, the Vessels sunk in the channel of Patapsco River, near Whetstone-Point,

Commissions to sundry Officers issued,

Council dissolved,

Convention met at Annapolis,

List of the Members present,

Charles Carroll (Barrister) chosen President, and Gabriel Duvall appointed Clerk,

Resolve of Secrecy of last session renewed,

Proceedings of the Council of Safety in consequence of the intercepted Letters to Governour Eden, read,

Alexander Wickham, on the complaint of the Committee of Talbot County, committed to the custody of a Guard,

Petition from Francis Baker, of Talbot County,

Committee to examine the Papers laid before the Convention by the Council of Safety, relative to the conduct of Samuel Purviance,

Petitions from the inhabitants of Frederick County, and from the Committee for Talbot County,

Report of the Committee on the conduct of Samuel Purviance,

Committee on the Petition of Joseph Wood, of Frederick County,

Monday next appointed to consider the Letters of Governour Eden,

Alexander Wickham discharged, being a person too insignificant for the further notice of the Convention,

Committee to consider of the further means of defence necessary for the Province,

Remonstrance of the Committee of the Lower District of Frederick County, referred to the next Convention,

Yeas and Nays, if required by a County, to be taken upon every vote,

Committee to receive all Proposals relative to the establishment of Manufactories,

Intercepted Letters to Governour Eden, considered in Committee of the Whole,

Oaths to the Government, on taking office, to be dispensed with during the unhappy differences with Great Britain,

Intercepted Letters further considered,

Committee to consider the further encouraging the making of Marine Salt,

Committee on Powder-Mills and Saltpetre,

Resolutions condemning the conduct of Samuel Purviance, Jun., adopted,

Committee on the Resolution of the Congress the loth instant, recommending to the respective Colonies the adoption of such government as shall best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general,

Report of the Committee on the Resolution of Congress of the 15th instant, presented and read,

Report considered and unanimously adopted, declaring it unnecessary that every kind of authority under the Crown should be suppressed in the Frovince,

Delegates to the Continental Congress appointed,

Instructions to the Delegates by the Convention of December repeated; the Province having in view a reunion with Great Britain on constitutional principles,

Further Resolutions condemning the conduct of Samuel Purviance,

Mr. Purviance reprimanded by the President in presence of the Convention,

Reverend John Eversfield discharged; as from his age and infirmities he cannot exert any dangerous influence,

Publick Salt Works ordered to be erected,

Agreement with Henry Hollingsworth for making Gun-Barrels,

Agreement with Elisha Winters for making Muskets,

Intercepted Letters to Governour Eden further considered,

Report on the Memorial of Alexander McFadon, of Georgetown, in Frederick County,

Intercepted Letters to Governour Eden further considered in Committee of the Whole,

Conduct of the Council of Safety on the subject of the intercepted Letters, approved,

Correspondence of Governour Eden with the Administration declared not to have been with an unfriendly intent, or calculated to countenance any hostile measures against America,

The Governour to be informed that the publick quiet requires that he leave the Province,

Address to the Governour, requesting he will use his utmost endeavours to promote a reconciliation, upon terms honourable to both Great Britain and America,

Committee to devise a proper establishment for a Court of Admiralty,

Field-Officers for the County of Baltimore appointed,

Committee to prepare a Passport for Governour Eden,

Court of Admiralty established,

William Hayward appointed Judge of the Court of Admiralty,

Passport for Governour Eden reported, and agreed to,

Prayers for the King in the Book of Common Prayer, to be omitted in all Churches and Chapels in the Province until our unhappy differences are ended,

Further regulations respecting Powder-Mills and Saltpetre adopted,

Report relative to the establishment of Manufactories in the Province adopted,

Report of the Committee on the establishment of a Paper Manufactory adopted,

Committees directed to forbear levying Fines on certain Non-Enrollers, until the end of the next Convention,

Council of Safety elected, to continue until the end of the next session of the Convention,

Committee to revise the Journal,

Convention adjourned to the first Monday in August next, unless sooner called by the Council of Safety,

General Assembly met at Hartford,

List of the Representatives,

Erastus Wolcott Speaker, and Titus Hosmer Clerk,

Committee to count the votes for the Officers of the Colony,

Jonathan Trumbull is declared Governour, and Matthew Griswold Lieutenant-Governour,

Act for establishing Naval Officers in the Colony,

Act for repealing the Act against High Treason,

Act directing all Writs and Processes shall issue in the name of the Governour and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, instead of his Majesty’s name,

Act prescribing the forms of Oaths,

Act altering the form of Proclamation in relation to Riots and Rioters,

Act for further regulating the Militia, and for the encouragement of Military skill, for the better defence of the Colony,

Acts in addition thereto,

Act for more effectually carrying into execution the act relative to the making of Saltpetre and Gunpowder,