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That each Committee of Observation shall as soon as con-
veniently may be, after their appointment, choose by Ballot,
five of their members to be a Committee of Correspondence
for their County, for the said Term of one year, with power to
any two or more of them, to act as such.
That as the Small pox is now at Queen's Town, and it will
in all probability be dangerous to the Inhabitants of Queen
Ann's County, to assemble there for Electing the Committee
of Observation and Delegates for that County; the election
of the Committee of Observation and Delegates for the said
County shall be held at the house of George Hanson, instead
of the Court house of that County.
That for the ease and convenience of the people of Fred-
erick County, there be three different places of Election; that
the said County be divided into three Districts, to wit; Upper,
middle and lower; the upper District to be bounded by the
South Mountain, and the lines of the County westward of the
South Mountain. The middle District to be bounded from the
mouth of Monocacy with Potowmack to the South Mountain,
with that Mountain to the temporary Line, with the lines of
the County to the head waters of Patuxent, and with the lines
of the lower District to Potowmack; The lower District to be
bounded with Potowmack to the mouth of Monocacy, then
with Monocacy to Bennett's Creek, and with the Creek to the
head waters of Patuxent; that there be elected in the lower
district one Delegate, two persons to act as a Committee of
Correspondence and seventeen as a Committee of Observa-
tion; that in each of the other districts there be elected two
delegates and eighteen persons to act as a Committee of
Observation, and that three persons be elected in the Middle
district to act as a Committee of Correspondence. That the
elections for the Upper district be held at Elizabeth Town ;
those for the Middle district at Frederick Town; and those for
the lower district at Hungerford's; and that no person residing
or voting in one shall be admitted to vote in either of the other
districts.
Resolved, That for encouraging the manufacture of Salt-
petre, a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds common
money be advanced, on proper security, for erecting one or
more Salt-petre works, to be repaid in good merchantable
Salt-petre at the Rates hereinafter mentioned; and that for all
good merchantable Salt-petre, manufactured in this Province,
and delivered to the order of the Council of Safety before the
first day of October 1776, there shall be allowed at the Rate of
half a Dollar per pound, according to the Resolves of the Con-
tinental Congress.
That a Sum not exceeding one thousand pounds common
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