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Resolved, That no execution shall issue upon any Judgment
obtained in the Provincial Court after April Term last, or in
the County Courts after the last March adjourned Courts,
without such License as aforesaid, save only in the cases
above specified, or where the original Actions shall be brought
by License from the Committee of Observation.
Resolved, That the Committees of Observation now in being
in each County, and the Committees of Frederick County in
their respective Districts, meet as soon as they conveniently
can, after publication and due notice of these Resolves, and
that the Committees hereafter to be chosen meet as soon as
they conveniently can, at the Court house, or some other place
agreed upon by themselves, and appoint by Ballot, seven of
their number to be a Committee for licensing suits, which said
Committees shall meet on the first and third Mondays in every
month, for the purpose of receiving applications, and give
notice of the place where they intend to meet.
Resolved, That [it] is earnestly recommended by this Con-
vention to all the Inhabitants of this Province, to make pay-
ment without compulsion, where they are able or give security
as above mentioned, and particularly that they pay the public
taxes, and interest money due in the Loan Office, it being the
design of this Convention to prevent oppression and imprison-
ment of poor Debtors, but not to give any pretence of non
payment to those who are of sufficient ability to pay their just
debts.
It appearing to this Convention that a person arrested by
the Sheriff of Baltimore County, and in his Custody for debt,
had been rescued by some disorderly people in that County,
and that the Riot had been suppressed and the Prisoner so
rescued, had been restored to the custody of the said Sheriff
by the intervention and activity of Captains Buchanan and
Gist, and the Companies under their command; and this Con-
vention being fully impressed with the necessity, that the Civil
power in the ordinary administration of Justice should be sup-
ported: It is Resolved, That this Convention do highly approve
of the conduct of the said Captains and their companies, in the
suppression of the said Riot, and support of the Civil Author-
ity. And that this Resolve be communicated to said Captains
and their companies by the Delegates of Baltimore County in
this Convention.
Resolved that the late Committee of Observation for Cecil
County be authorised to act as usual, until the second Tuesday
of September next.
Doubts having arisen in this Province respecting the con-
struction of the Continental Association, whether merchandise
or other commodities taken on Board Craft or in any manner
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