Applications, and Reports to Convention in all former sessions, whereon no final order hath been or shall be made, be referred to the next session of Convention.

On motion, Resolved, That a bounty of one shilling, common money, be paid by the Council of Safety for every bushel of Salt imported into this Colony, and delivered above Point-Look-out, before the first day of March next, and that the importer be allowed to sell the same at any price not exceeding 7s. 6d., common money, per bushel.

On motion, Resolved, That the Council of Safety advertise the Proposals given in to this Convention by Mr. Charles Wallace, and request any person who will contract for a large quantity of Salt, to deliver in their Proposals by the 20th day of July next; and the Council of Safety are empowered to enter into a contract agreeable to any such Proposals that may be given in, if they adjudge such Proposals more for the advantage of the publick: but if no better terms should be offered by the said day, then the Council of Safety are empowered to close with the said Proposals of Charles Wallace.

Ordered, That the Declaration of this Convention of this day, and the Resolutions in answer to the Resolution of the Virginia Convention, be published in the Maryland Gazette.

The Journal of Accounts was read and assented to.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of the Western-Shore pay the several claims allowed in the same.

The Convention adjourns till Thursday, the 1st day of August next, to sit at this place, but the Council of Safety may convene the Convention at any other time or place they shall judge necessary.

Signed by order of the Convention:

GABRIEL DUVALL, Clerk.

VIRGINIA CONVENTION.

At a Convention of Delegates from the Counties and Corporations in the Colony of Virginia, held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburgh, on Monday, the 6th of May, in the year of our Lord 1776; Present:

FOR ACCOMACK: Southey Simpson and Issac Smith, Esqs.

FOR ALBEMARLE: Charles Lewis, Esq., and George Gilmer for Thomas Jefferson, Esquire.

FOR AMELIA: John Tabb and John Winn. Esquires.

FOR AUGUSTA: Thomas Lewis and Samuel McDowell, Esqs.

FOR WEST-AUGUSTA: John Harvie and Charles Simms, Esquires.

FOR AMHERST: William, Cabell and Gabriel Penn, Esqs.

FOR BEDFORD: John Talbot and Charles Lynch, Esqs.

FOR BOTETOURT: John Bowyer and Patrick Lockhart, Esquires.

FOR BRUNSWICK: Frederick Maclin and Henry Tazewell, Esquires.

FOR BUCKINGHAM: Charles Patteson and John Cabell, Esquires.

FOR BERKELEY: Robert Rutherford and William Drew, Esquires.

FOR CAROLINE: The Hon. Edmund Pendleton and James Taylor, Esquires.

FOR CHARLES CITY: William Acrill, Esquire, and Samuel Harwood, Esquire, for Benjamin Harrison, Esquire.

FOR CHARLOTTE: Paul Carrington and Thomas Read, Esquires.

FOR CHESTERFIELD: Archibald Cary and Benjamin Watkins, Esquires.

FOR CULPEPPER: Henry Field and French Strother, Esqs.

FOR CUMBERLAND: John Mayo and William Fleming, Esqs.

FOR DINWIDDIE: John Banister and Boiling Starke, Esqs.

FOR DUNMORE: Abraham Bird and John Tipton, Esqs.

FOR ELIZABETH CITY: Wilson Miles Cary and Henry King, Esquires.

FOR ESSEX: Meriwether Smith and James Edmondson, Esquires.

FOR FAIRFAX: John West, Jun., and George Mason, Esqs.

FOR FAUQUIER: Martin Pickett and James Scott, Esqs.

FOR FREDERICK: James Wood and Isaac Zane, Esqs.

FOR FINCASTLE: Arthur Campbell and William Russell, Esquires.

FOR GLOUCESTER: Thomas Whiting and Lewis Burwell, Esquires.

FOR GOOCHLAND: John Woodson and Thomas M. Randolph, Esquires.

FOR HALIFAX: Nathaniel Terry and Micajah Watkins, Esquires.

FOR HAMPSHIRE: James Mercer and Abraham Hite, Esqs.

FOR HANOVER: Patrick Henry and John Syme, Esquires.

FOR HENRICO: Nathaniel Wilkinson and Richard Adams, Esquires.

FOR JAMES CITY: Robert C. Nicholas and William Norvell, Esquires.

FOR ISLE-OF-WIGHT: John S. Wills and Charles Fulgham, Esquires.

FOR KING GEORGE: Joseph Jones and William Fitzhugh, Esquires.

FOR KING AND QUEEN: George Brooke and William Lyne, Esquires.

FOR KING WILLIAM: William Aylett and Richard Squire Taylor, Esquires.

FOR LANCASTER: James Selden and James Gordon, Esqs.

FOR LOUDOUN: Francis Peyton and Josias Clapham, Esqs.

FOR LOUISA: George Meriwether and Thomas Johnson, Esquires.

FOR LUNENBURGH: David Garland and Lodowick Farmer, Esquires.

FOR MIDDLESEX: Edmund Berkeley and James Montague, Esquires.

FOR MECKLENBURGH: Joseph Speed and Bennett Goode, Esquires.

FOR NANSEMOND: Willis Riddick and William Cowper, Esquires.

FOR NEW-KENT: William Clayton and Bartholomew Dandridge, Esquires.

FOR NORFOLK: James Holt and Thomas Newton, Esqs.

FOR NORTHUMBERLAND: Rodham Kenner and John Cralle, Esquires.

FOR NORTHAMPTON: Nathaniel L. Savage and George Savage, Esquires.

FOR ORANGE: James Madison and William Moore, Esqs.

FOR PITTSYLVANIA: Benjamin Lankford and Robert Williams, Esquires.

FOR PRINCE EDWARD: William Watts and William Booker, Esquires.

FOR PRINCE GEORGE: Richard Bland and Peter Poythress, Esquires.

FOR PRINCESS ANNE: William Robinson and John Thoroughgood, Esquires.

FOR PRINCE WILLIAM: Cuthbert Bullitt and Henry Lee, Esquires.

FOR RICHMOND: Hudson Muse and Charles McCarty, Esquires.

FOR SOUTHAMPTON: Edwin Gray and Henry Taylor, Esqs.

FOR SPOTTSYLVANIA: Mann Page and George Thornton, Esquires.

FOR STAFFORD: Thomas Ludwell Lee and William Brent, Esquires.

FOR SURRY: Allen Cocke and Nicholas Faulcon, Esquires.

FOR SUSSEX: David Mason and Henry Gee, Esquires.

FOR WARWICK: William Harwood and Richard Cary, Esquires.

FOR WESTMORELAND: Richard Lee, Esq., Richard Henry Lee, Esquire, and John A. Washington, Esquire.

FOR YORK: Dudley Digges, Esq., Thomas Nelson, Jun., Esquire, and William Digges, Esquire.

FOR JAMESTOWN: Champion Travis, Esquire.

FOR WILLIAMSBURGH: Edmund Randolph, Esq., for George Wythe, Esquire.

FOR NORFOLK BOROUGH: William Roscow Wilson Curle, Esquire.

FOR College of WILLIAM AND MARY: John Blair, Esq.

On a motion made,

Ordered, That Mr. John Tazewell be appointed Clerk to this Convention.

Richard Bland, Esquire, a Delegate for the County of Prince George, reminded the Convention of the necessity of proceeding to the choice of a President, and recommended Edmund Pendleton, Esq., who had already executed that important trust, and had given undeniable proofs of his abilities

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