Proceedings of the Maryland Convention, 1775. 17

	In Worcester	1	Saint Marys	2	C. J.
	Somerset	1	Calvert	1
	Dorchester	2	Charles	3
	Talbot	1	Prince George's	3
	Caroline	1	Ann Arundel	4
	Queen Anns	2	Baltimore	5
	Kent	1	Harford	3
	Cecil	2	Frederick	8
		11		29
				11
				40.—

And that for the enrolment of every such Company, a
proper person be appointed by the Committee of each respect-
ive County, to enlist a sufficient number of men, who shall
voluntarily offer themselves to make up the non-commissioned
Officers and privates of each of the said Companies, for their
respective County, in the enrolment of whom, care shall be
had, that the men be strong and effective, and live as conve-
nient may be for their frequent and ready assembling and
exercising together.

That the form of the Enrolment of Minute-men be as fol-
lows, to wit. "We whose names are subscribed, do hereby
enrol ourselves into a Company of Minute-men for
County, agreeable to the Resolutions of the Provincial Con-
vention held at Annapolis the 26th day of July 1775, to con-
tinue such until the first day of March next; and engage that
we will respectively march to such places, either in this, or the
neighbouring Colonies, and at such times as we shall be com-
manded by the Convention, or the Council of Safety of this
Province, or by our Officers in pursuance of the orders of the
said Convention or Council, and that we will respectively fight
with, and employ the Arms wherewith we are entrusted, for
the. preservation of American Liberty, against whomsoever we
shall be commanded by such Authority as aforesaid, with our
whole power. Witness our hands this Day of

1775."
That each Company as soon as enrolled and viewed and

allowed by the Committee of their County, or by such person,
or persons as shall be appointed by such Committee for that
purpose, shall elect and choose their proper officers by Ballot,
who shall be appointed and commissioned by the Delegates of
this Province sitting in Convention, or at any time when they
are not sitting in Convention by the Council of Safety, in the
name of the Convention.