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ment heretofore made, until the next convention shall make further
order therein.

Thereupon the convention considering that the said Thomas
Johnson, esq., cannot discharge the duty of brigadier of the forces
to be raised in this province in consequence of the resolves of con-
gress of the third day of June last, to which command the conven-
tion, from a confidence in his capacity and abilities to fill the same
with advantage to the public cause, and honor to himself, had ap-
pointed him, and also execute the trust reposed in him as a depu-
ty in congress for this province; and being of opinion, that it is of
very great importance to the welfare of this province, that it should
not be deprived of the advice and assistance of the said Thomas
Johnson in the public councils of the united colonies, and that his
place can be supplied with less inconvenience in the military than
in the civil department, therefore, Resolved, That a brigadier-gen-
eral be elected by ballot in the room of the said Thomas Johnson,
esquire.

The convention then proceeded to elect a brigadier-general in
the room of Thomas Johnson, esqr., and John Dent, esqr., was
elected by ballot to that office.

Captain Thomas Ewing was then elected colonel of the lower
battalion of militia to be raised on the western shore for the flying
camp, in the room of John Dent, esq.

On motion, the question was put, That the sum of ten shillings
currency per day, and reasonable itinerant charges, be allowed to
each member that shall hereafter attend any convention, and that
the resolution of the 20th of December last, allowing them four-
teen shillings per day, be repealed? Carried in the negative.

FOR THE NEGATIVE.

Mr, Jordan, Mr. Carroll, barrister, Mr. Veazey,

Barnes, T. Johnson, Gilpin,

Reeder, S. Chase, Thompson,

Ford, Carroll of Carr. Ewing,

Hawkins, Griffith, Letherbury,

Mackall, Beatty, Hollyday,

Smith, B. Johnson, Tho. Wright,

Allein, Baird, Earle,

Sirn, Moale, Chaille,

Beall, J. T. Chase, Handy,

Coulee, Rumsey, J. Dashiell,