The same gentlemen are also appointed to appraise the Guns and some Powder brought in to-day by Captain William Cromwell.

Seven and a half pounds of Powder, taken from Harry Dorsey Gough, Esq., (a non-Associator and non-Enroller,) by Captain William Cromwell, were left with the Committee, to be disposed of by them as shall to them seem expedient.

Mr. John Merryman, Jun., is appointed Treasurer and Receiver of the Assessments to be collected from the non-Enrollers by the different Collectors of this County.

Mr. George Woolsey is appointed Collector of the Assessments from the non-Enrollers of Westminster, Baltimore Town, West, Baltimore Town, East, and Deptford Hundreds.

Mr. Charles Rogers for Middlesex and Patapsco, Lower, and Mr. William Cromwell (of William) for Soldiers’ Delight and Patapsco, Upper Hundreds.

The following is the form of the Warrant granted to the Collectors of the Assessments:

“ In Committee, &c.

“Mr. A. . . . B. . . . :

“SIR : You are hereby appointed and empowered to collect and receive all sums of money by the Committee of Baltimore County assessed, and to be assessed, on the non-Enrollers of ........ Hundred, and in default of payment, (after giving one month’s notice of such assessment,) to distrain the goods and effects of said defaulters, and sell and dispose of the same in the same manner that goods may be distrained and sold by law for County levies. In so doing this shall be your Warrant.

Messrs. James Boring and Wheeler Murray having, in a written paper, exculpated Thomas Stansbury, Jun., from the charge alleged against him at the last meeting of the Committee :

Upon motion, Resolved, unanimously, That the charge exhibited against Mr. Thomas Stansbury, Jun., is groundless, and that the said Thomas Stansbury, Jun., is entitled to the thanks of every friend to the cause of American liberty in general, and this Committee in particular, for his uniform, warm, and forward zeal in the cause of liberty since the commencement of the present unhappy disturbances.

Upon motion by Doctor Robert Lemmon, Captain Stephen Gill is hereby requested to attend on Monday, the 10th of June, to answer to the allegations of the aforesaid Dr. Robert Lemmon and others, contained in a paper just now handed in to the Committee.

At a meeting of the Committee, May 28, 1776:

Present: William Lux, Chairman, A. Buchanan, B. Nicholson, T. Harrison, W. Aisquith, J. Calhoun, J. Griest, J. Smith, J. Boyd.

Whereas many of the Troops in the Provincial service, as well as the Militia, have never had the Small-Pox, and it is necessary and expedient in this time of danger to endeavour as much as possible to prevent that contagious disorder from spreading; this Committee, taking the same into consideration,

Do Resolve, That it be recommended to the Physicians and Surgeons in this County to desist from inoculating any person or persons whatever within the said County until the further determination of the Committee.

In consequence of the above request from the Committee, several Doctors waited on them, and signed the following Paper:

We, the subscribers, practising Physicians in the Town of Baltimore, sensible of the propriety and necessity of the Resolve of the Committee that inoculation for the small-pox should, for the present, be suspended, do cheerfully engage that we will not, for the future, inoculate any persons whatever in this County, till the further directions from this Committee.

At a special meeting of the Committee, May 30, 1776:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Jun., Chairman, W. Lux, Vice-Chairman, J. Smith, J. Calhoun, J. Boyd, W. Aisquith, Z. McCubbin.

Doctor William Lyon made application to the Committee, informing them that Mr. Charles Grahame had intended to bring up four of his children to his house to be inoculated by him, previous to the Resolve of the 28th instant, and requested the sense of the Committee thereon, whether or not he might have permission to proceed in the said inoculation, as he apprehended that, although he intended to perform the operation himself, yet he did not consider himself as a practising Physician, and that, from the distance of his situation from town, he was of opinion there could not be the least danger of the infection’s spreading. The Committee, considering duly his request:

Resolved, That however willing they may be to oblige Mr. Grahame, they cannot deviate from their general line of conduct, and therefore refuse the requested permission.

The Committee met on Monday, June 3, 1776:

Present: Samuel Purviance, Jun., Chairman, J. Smith, T. Gist, J. Boyd, J. Griest, W. Wilkinson, J. Merryman, J. Calhoun, B. Griffith, T. Sollers, A. Britain, J. Gillis, J. Sterrett, T. Rutter.

Mr. William Holmes, who lives on Todd’s Island, near North-Point, proposed to this Committee that, for £6, he would give intelligence up the Bay and to this Town, when the enemy were coming up the Bay, for one year; that he will keep a Boat in constant readiness for the purpose, to run up the Bay, and will despatch the intelligence for the Town by Mr. Roles, who lives near him on the main, who shall be paid for his trouble in riding up to Town by the Committee.

The Committee, on considering Mr. Holmes’s proposals, agreed to lay the same before the Council of Safety.

Mr. Hugh Westbay presented a Petition to this Committee, setting forth his poverty, and praying an exemption from his fine as being a non-Enroller.

Whereupon it was Resolved, n. c. d., That his fine ought not to be remitted.

Miss Goddard informed this Committee, by Letter, that on Wednesday last Mr. George Somerville came to her office and abused her with threats and indecent language on account of a late publication in her paper. The Committee, conceiving it to be their duty to inquire into everything that has a tendency to restrain the liberty of the Press,

Ordered, That a Summons be issued for the said George Somerville, returnable at three o’clock P. M.

Complaint being made to the Committee by Mr. Benjamin Levy, Clerk to the Mercantile Company, that Conrad Appleman, a Member of said Company, refuses to pay the fines assessed on him for non-attendance of the Company:

Ordered, That a Warrant be issued to distrain the effects of the said Appleman, and to dispose of as much of the same as may discharge the fines incurred, agreeable to the Resolve of the Convention.

Which Warrant is worded as follows :

“Whereas it is certified to this Committee that a certain Conrad Appleman (who has enrolled in the Mercantile Company of Militia) has been fined by the Officers of the said Company in the sum of 15s. for his non-attendance at three several times at the mustering of said Company, which fines he refuses to pay: These are therefore to require and command you to seize and distress the goods and effects of the said Conrad Appleman, sufficient to pay the said fines, and sell the same agreeable to the Resolve of the Convention in such case made and provided; and for your so doing, this shall be your sufficient Warrant.

“Signed per order:

“SAMUEL PURVIANCE, Jun., Ch’n.

“To C. Frolick.”

Mr. Joshua Gist is appointed Collector of the Assessments in Pipe Creek and Delaware Hundreds.

Upon motion, Ordered, That blank Enrollment and Association Papers be sent to Mr. John Murray, in Pipe Creek Hundred, to get the same signed by such persons in said Hundred, between the Conawaga Road and the Black Rock