24 Proceedings of the Maryland Convention, 1775.

C. J,

That any officer of the Minute-men or Militia may be sus-
pended from the Exercise of his Commission by the Council of
Safety, or that Branch of it residing on the Shore whereon
such Officer resides; or if the Council of Safety should think
proper, they may upon full hearing displace any Field Officer,
and appoint and Commission another in his stead; and that
on the death, resignation or Removal of any Commissioned
Officer, below the degree of a Field Officer, from his Office,
the Council of Safety may appoint and commission another in
his stead.
That the Council of Safety or either Branch thereof for
Expenses incurred on its respective Shore, may from time to
time draw orders on the Treasurer of their respective Shore
for the Bills of Credit to be issued by Virtue of the Resolutions
of the Convention, who shall accordingly pay such orders.
That the Council of Safety may, in case they shall think it
necessary, summon and call the Convention to meet before the
day, to which it may stand adjourned.
That the Council of Safety continue such until the next Con-
vention, and no longer, and that they render an account of
their proceedings, and always be subject to the Controul of the
Convention.
Resolved, in order to prevent an abuse of power from a
continuance thereof in the same persons, that at each Conven-
tion, eight members of the preceding Council of Safety, four
residing on the Eastern and four on the Western Shore, shall

be ineligible to the succeeding Council, and that the said eight

persons immediately before the choice of the new Council of
Safety be ascertained by Ballot.
That for providing for the defence of this Province, and for
encouraging and promoting the manufacture of Salt-petre,
erecting of a Powder Mill and the several other purposes
directed by this Convention, Resolved, that Bills of Credit of
the denomination of Dollars, and parts of a Dollar, to the
amount of 266,666 Dollars and two third parts of a Dollar be
printed and struck with all convenient speed, under the care
and direction of Mess^rs Thomas Hyde and William Wilkins,
Supervisors in manner and form following, to wit;
" This Bill of shall entitle the Bearer hereof to
receive Gold and Silver at the rate of four shillings and six
pence sterling per Dollar, for the said Bill according to a
Resolve of the Provincial Convention of Maryland, held at the
City of Annapolis on the 26^th day of July 1775."
That the said Bills shall have such devices and marks as
the said Supervisors shall think proper, and the numbers of
the said Bills as well as the denominations thereof, shall be the
following and no other, to wit, Seven thousand and ninety six