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some one of the field officers of the county where such company
shall be raised, and the captain shall raturn two copies of his mus-
ter roll, certified by the field officer who musters the men, to the
council of safety, who shall transmit one of the copies to the con-
gress.

A letter from captain Montagu, of the Fowey ship of war, of
this day, to the president of the council of safety, was laid before
the convention and read. Thereupon it is ordered, that the presi-
dent of the council of safety be directed to write a letter to captain
Montagu, in the following words, to wit:

In Council of Safety, 25th June, 1776.

SIR—By command of the council of safety I enclose you their
resolution of yesterday, which expresses the occasion of discon-
tinuing an intercourse with the Fowey, which was wished and ex-
pected to have ended more satisfactorily. Any measures that may
be attempted for the ostensible cause of stopping the governor's
baggage must properly be imputed to your breach of the truce, and
will be resented in full proportion to the injury.

Convention adjourns till to morrow morning, 9 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, June 26, 1776.

Convention met. All members present as on yesterday. The
proceedings of yesterday were read.

Ordered, That the small tender belonging to the Defence be sta-
tioned between Greenbury's and Horn point, one armed boat
between Tolley's and Horn point, and one other armed boat
between Greenbury's and Hackett's point, to prevent any com-
munication with the Fowey, and that the council of safety carry
this order into execution.

A petition from Turbutt Betton of Queen Anne's county, and a
representation from Daniel Dulany of Annapolis, were read and
ordered to lie on the table.

The proceedings of the committee of observation for Anne
Arundel county against William Yeldell, who had refused to sign
the association, were laid before the convention and read, and on
consideration thereof, Ordered, That the said William Yeldell give
bond with such sureties as shall be approved of by the committee
of Anne Arundel county, in the penalty of one hundred pounds
current money, with condition agreeable to the resolve of the De-
cember convention; that he pay the charges of his imprisonment,
and on payment and giving bond, be discharged.

William Bishop was brought before the convention on suspicion
of having been aiding and assisting in carrying Peter Craufurd and
James M'Caskie on board the Fowey man of war, and upon in-