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At a convention of DELEGATES, chosen by the several counties of
the province of Maryland, at the city of Annapolis, on Wednes-
day the 8th of May, 1776.

	PRESENT.
For St. Mary's county.	Patrick Ewing,
Richard Barnes,	William Currer.
John Reider,	Kent.
Athanasius Ford.	Peregrine Letherbury,
Charles.	William Sluby,
Josias Hawkins,	Thomas Ringgold.
Robert T. Hooe,	Queen Anne's.
William Harrison,	James Hollyday,
Joseph H. Harrison.	Turbutt Wright,
Calvert.	Thomas Wright,
Edward Gantt,	Richard T. Earle,
Patrick Smith,	James Tilghman,
William Allein.	Talbot.
Prince George's.	James Lloyd Chamberlaine,
Thomas Contee,	Nicholas Thomas,
Robert Tyler.	Pollard Edmondson.
Anne Arundel.	Dorchester.
Charles Carroll, barrister,	Robert Goldsborough,
Thomas Johnson, jr.	Henry Hooper,
Frederick. Lower district.	James Murray,
Henry Griffith.	John Ennals.
Middle.	Caroline.
Charles Beatty,	Nathaniel Potter,
Baker Johnson.	William Richardson,
Upper.	Henry Dickinson,
William Baird.	Richard Mason.
Baltimore.	Somerset.
Benjamin Nicholson,	George Dasheill,
Walter Tolley, jr.	Gustavus Scott,
Harford.	Peter Waters.
Thomas Bond.	Worcester.
Cecil.	Peter Chaille,
John Veazey, jr.	Samuel Handy,
Joseph Gilpin,	John Done,
John D. Thompson,	Joseph Dasheill.

The honorable CHARLES CARROLL, Esq., barrister, was cho-
sen president.