114 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776.

use of said county, the dispute therein relative, to the place where
said court house and prison shall be erected, be hereafter determin-
ed by the legislative authority for the time being.

Ordered, That Edward Davis be discharged from further custody.

On motion, Resolved, That captain Thomas Johnson, junior's,
and captain William Hyde's, company of militia, in the city of
Annapolis, be independent companies, but subject to the same rules
and regulations as the other militia of this province, where such
rules and regulations will apply to their circumstances as well when
the said companies are in actual service, as otherwise; and that cap-
tains Richard Harwood, junior's, Wm. Brogden's, Edward Tillard's,
John Weems', John Steward's, John Deale's, and Richard Chew's,
companies of militia, in Anne Arundel county, compose a bat-
talion, any thing in the resolves of the last convention, or the pro-
ceedings of the committee of observation for Anne Arundel county
to the contrary notwithstanding.

On motion, Resolved, That there be a district, in Fredrick coun-
ty, bounded on the east by Licking creek, to include all that part
of the said county, which lies to the west of the said creek.

That the freemen, and others, entitled to vote for delegates in
convention, by the resolves of the last convention, meet a Skipton,
in the said district, on a day to be appointed, and choose by ballot
one discreet and sensible freeman of the said district, to join the
other delegates from Frederick county and vote in conventions
hereafter to be held for this province.

That the said election be held under the inspection of such per-
sons as may be chosen and appointed by the freemen of that dis-
trict for the purpose, and be conducted in the same manner and un-
der the same rules as laid down by the last convention for choosing
delegates.

That the freemen of the said district choose fifteen discreet and
sensible men of the same district to be a committee for the said dis-
trict, any seven of them to act; and that the election be made agree-
able to the resolves of the last convention.

On reading a second time the petition from the inhabitants of the
city of Annapolis, Resolved, That the same be referred for consid-
eration till the next session of convention.

Adjourned till 3 o'clock.

POST MERIDIEM.

Convention met.

Resolved, That this convention do highly disapprove of the neg-
ligence of many of the people of this province, in not paying off
their levies, which ought to have been paid and discharged the last
summer; and much more so, of the combinations in some few parts