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The convention resumed the election of officers for the militia
and elected by ballot.

FOR CALVERT COUNTY.

Mr. Benjamin Mackall 4th, colonel: Mr. Alexander Somervill,
lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Joseph Wilkinson, 1st major; Mr. Patrick
Sim Smith, 3d; Mr. William Allein, quarter-master.
FOR ANNE-ARUNDEL COUNTY.

Elk-Ridge battalion. Mr. Thomas Dorsey, colonel; Mr. John
Dorsey, lieutenant-colonel; Dr. C. A. Warfield, 1st major; Mr.
Edward Gaither, jun. 2d; Mr. Benjamin Howard, quarter-master.
Severn battalion, Mr. John Hall, colonel; Mr. Rezin Hammond,
lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Nicholas Worthington, 1st major; Mr.
Elijah Robosson, 2d; Mr. Matthias Hammond, quarter-master,
South-River battalion. Mr. John Weems, colonel; Mr. Richard
Harwood, jun. lieutenant-colonel; Mr. John Thomas, 1st major;
Mr. Thomas Tillard, 2d; Mr. Edward Tillard, quarter-master.
FOR FREDERICK COUNTY.

First battalion. Mr. Charles Beatty, colonel; Mr. William Beatty,
lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Ludwick Weltner, 1st major; Mr. Benjamin
Johnson 2d; Mr Lewis Bush, quarter-master. Second balatlion.
Mr. James Johnson, colonel; Mr. Joseph Wood, lientenant-colo-
nel; Mr. Benjamin Ogle, 1st major; Mr. Roger Johnson, 2d;
Mr. Azel Waters, quarter-master. Third battalion. Mr. Jacob
Good, colonel; Mr. William Blair, lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Samuel
Shaw, 1st major; Mr. William Shields, 2d; Mr. Joseph M'Killip,
quarter-master. Fourth battalion. Mr. Baker Johnson, colonel;
Mr. William Luckett, lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Jacob Miller, 1st
major; Mr. Henry Darnall, 2d; Mr. Nicholas Tice, quarter-master.
LOWER DISTRICT.

Lower battalion. Mr. John Murdock, colonel; Mr. Thomas
Johns, lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Richard Brooke, 1st major; Mr.
William Deakins, 2d; Mr. Richard Thompson, quarter-master.
Upper battalion. Mr. Zadock Magruder, colonel; Mr. Charles
G. Griffith, lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Francis Deakins, 1st major; Mr.
Richard Crabb, 2d; Mr. Samuel Du Vail, quarter-master.

UPPER DISTRICT.

First battalion. Mr. John Stall, colonel; Mr. Andrew Rench,
lieutenant-colonel; Mr. Henry Shryock, 1st major; Mr. George
Woltz, 2d; Mr. Elie Williams, quarter-master. Second battalion.
Mr. Samuel Beall, colonel; Mr. Joseph Smith, lieutenant-colonelj
Mr. Richard Davis, 1st major; Mr. Charles Swearingen, 2d; Mi.
James Chaplinc, quarter-master.