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person as shall be appointed by each of the said Committees
on their respective Shore, the amount of the money so paid in
and actually expended in the purposes aforesaid, before the
transmitting of such account, that the same as well as all other
money paid in, not expended as aforesaid, may be returned to
the Subscribers contributors thereof.
Resolved, That the Honourable Matthew Tilghman and
John Beale Bordley Esquires, and Robert Goldsborough, James
Hollyday, Richard Lloyd, Edward Lloyd, Thomas Smyth, and
Henry Hooper Esquires, residents of the Eastern Shore, and
the Honorable Daniel of St Thomas Jenifer Esquire, and
Thomas Johnson Junr, William Paca, Charles Carroll, Barrister,
Thomas Stone, Samuel Chase, Robert Alexander and Charles
Carroll of Carrollton Esquires, residents of the Western Shore,
or any nine of them, be a Council of Safety for this Province.
That every member of the Council of Safety before he enters
on the execution of his Office, having subscribed the Associa-
tion take before some Justice of the Peace the following Oath
to wit: " You A. B. do swear, that any matter or thing, which
shall come to your knowledge as a member of the Council of
Safety, and which you shall know, is by a majority of the
Council ordered to be kept secret, you will not divulge unless
in a Convention of Delegates, or to the members of the Coun-
cil of Safety, or with the leave of the Convention, or a majority
of the Council of Safety. So help you God."
And that the Clerk of the Council of Safety, or of either of
the said Branches thereof shall before he enters on the Execu-
tion of his Office, before some Justice of the peace, take an
oath in the same Form; except, instead of the words " as a
Member of the Council of Safety " inserting, " as Clerk of the
Council of Safety " or " as Clerk of the Eastern or Western
Shore Branch of the Council of Safety," as the case may be
The Convention resumed the consideration of the Report
relative to the shutting of the Courts of Justice, which after
debates thereon, was recommitted for Amendments, and the
following parts of it were agreed to.
Resolved, That in all suits and actions, now depending or
commenced within this Province, where there is no real dispute,
the Suitors and Attornies proceed with all convenient Speed
to settle the same by Judgment, Reference, or other Amicable
way; and that all suits and actions now depending or com-
menced (where there are real disputes, and which cannot be
settled in an amicable manner, or tried with justice to the par-
ties) ought to stand and remain during these times of Public
Calamity, in their present State and Condition; or be con-
tinued until otherwise ordered by Act of Assembly, or some
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