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the counties thereof adjoining thereto; and that the said inhabitants
share equally in the burthens, privileges and benefits, with others
the people of this colony.

Resolved, That the said intended convention shall not continue
beyond the first day of December next.

Resolved, That all the civil officers in this colony, except those
concerned in the customs, continue to execute their several offices
until the next convention shall make order therein, except only in
such cases where they are restrained by the resolves of the conven-
tions held for this colony.

Whereas, the sheriff of Baltimore county, by virtue of a writ of
habere facias possessionem, delivered possession of certain lands
and tenements recovered in the provincial court by Long's lessee
against Wm. Pellett and others, to a certain Robert Long, against
the order and determination of the May convention, Resolved,
That the sheriff of said county deliver the said lands and tene-
ments to the said William Pellett and others, or their agent, and
cause as full and ample possession thereof, with all things thereto
appertaining, to be to him or them restored as they had before the
issuing the said writ.

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

THURSDAY, July 4, 1776.

Convention met. All members present as on yesterday, except
Mr. Goldsborough, Mr. W. Ennalls, Mr. Potter, Mr. Dickinson,
Mr. G. Dashiell, Mr. Waters, and Mr. Edmondson. The proceed-
ings of yesterday were read.

On reading and considering the remonstrances and petitions of
the fifth and twentieth battalions of militia in Queen Anne's coun-
ty, praying a removal of the field officers of said battalions, Re-
solved, That the same be rejected.

The convention proceeded to ballot for deputies to represent
this province in the continental congress, and the honorable Mat-
thew Tilghman, esq., and Thomas Johnson, junr., William Paca,
Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and
Robert Alexander, esqrs., were duly elected for that purpose.

Resolved, That the honorable Matthew Tilghman, esq., and Tho-
mas Johnson, jr., William Paca, Samuel Chase, Thomas Stone,
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Robert Alexander, esqrs., or a
majority of them, or any three or more of them, be deputies to re-
present this colony in congress, in as full and ample manner as
the deputies of this colony might have done under any appoint-