50 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1775.

having considered the said proceedings and conduct of the said
Robert Buchanan.

Resolved, That the proceedings of the committee of Kent coun-
ty, respecting Mr. Buchanan, are approved by this convention:
And that Mr. President from the chair signify to the said Robert
Buchanan in his place, that this convention censures the conduct
of the said Robert Buchanan, in having refused to enroll in the mi-
litia, on the terms directed by the last convention, and in having en-
couraged others to imitate his example; thereby setting up his own
judgment in opposition to the determinations of that convention,
and that the said Robert Buchanan be informed by Mr. President,
that he and those who disapproved the scheme adopted by the same
convention, for regulating the militia, ought to have applied to the
next convention for such alterations as they thought necessary;

that such applications would have been duly considered and attend-
ed to; but that the said Robert Buchanan ought in the mean time
to have acquiesced in the regulations agreed to in convention by
the representative body of the province.

Ordered, also, That Mr. President signify to Mr. Buchanan,
that this convention highly disapprove his conduct and behaviour
before the committee, respecting the charge exhibited against him,
which the said committee were bound by their duty to examine in-
to and proceed on.

Mr. Sudler has leave of absence till Monday next.

Ordered, That the committee of Kent county deliver to Mr. Sud-
ler, out of the public arms in their possession, one hundred firelocks,
forty bayonets, two hundred pounds of powder and all the cutlasses.

The order of the day for taking into consideration the state of
the province being read, Ordered, That the same be referred for
further consideration till to-morrow.

Mr. Allein has leave of absence.

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning half after 9 o'clock.

FRIDAY, December 15th, 1775.

Convention met. All members present as on yesterday except
Mr. Mason and Mr. Allein. The proceedings of yesterday were
read. James Hollyday, Esquire, a member for Queen-Anne's coun-
ty, and Mr. Thomas Bond, a member for Harford county, ap-
peared and took their seats in the house.

Upon reading the proceedings of the committee of Anne Arun-
del county against Robert Davis, he appeared and presented a mem-
morial, which was read and considered, and thereupon Mr. Pres-
ident was directed to inform Mr. Davis, that it was his duty to at-