1776.] OF THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND. 153

POST MERIDIEM.

Met according to adjournment. Mr. Harrison has leave of ab-
sence.

It being represented to this convention, that an appeal lately
depending in the high court of appeals, between Pellett and others
appellants, and Robert Long's lessee appellee, is lately dismissed,
because the same could not longer continue, in the absence of the
appellant's counsel, who was necessarily attending the public busi-
ness as a representative in convention; and because it is fit and
proper that equal justice should be done all in any general provision
that may be made to aid the proceedings in courts, and prevent
the loss of suits which have continued, or may continue from the
present disturbed state of affairs, longer than the law allows; it is
therefore Resolved, That no execution issue on the original judg-
ment from which the said appeal was granted, or on the said dis-
missal, until the general state of the suits depending in the courts
shall be considered, and remedy provided or refused to be provi-
ded to prevent their discontinuance or dismissal because of their
too long continuance, and that if any execution hath issued or
should issue contrary hereto, the same be not served.

An application from Dr. Charles Alexander Warfield of Anne
Arundel county, for the sum of £ 600 to enable him to carry on a
salt-petre manufactory, was read and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Plater brings in and delivers to Mr. President, a report from
the committee appointed to consider of the expediency of exempt-
ing the masters and scholars of public and other schools from at-
tending on musters, which was read and ordered to lie on the
table.

A memorial from major Thomas Price, on behalf of himself and
the officers of the rifle company from this province in the continen-
tal service, was read and ordered to lie on the table.

On motion, Resolved, That a court of admiralty be erected, for
the purpose of determining upon such captures and seizures of
vessels as are or shall be made according to the late resolves of the
continental congress upon that subject, and brought into this pro-
vince.

Resolved, That a committee to consist of five persons be appoint-
ed to devise a proper establishment for such court of admiralty;

and Mr. T. Johnson, Mr. Paca, Mr. Plater, Mr. J. T. Chase, and
Mr. Hooe, were elected by ballot a committee accordingly.

A memorial from the officers of the battalion of regulars station-
ed at Annapolis, was read a first and second time and referred to
the consideration of a committee for that purpose to be elected; 20