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hundred pounds be advanced to Thomas Ringgold of Kent county,
for the term of one year, without interest, he giving bond, with
good security, to repay the same within the time aforesaid, either
in cash, or in linen, woollen, or cotton cloth, and in such propor-
tions, and of such qualities as the convention or council of safety
for the time being may direct, and at the rates and prices the said
convention or council of safety may set thereon.

On motion Mr. Samuel Chase (in obedience as he conceived to
the instructions of Anne Arundel county) the question was put
That all rents be paid and shall be received in country produce, at
the same rates which such commodities bore at the time such con-
tract was made or renewed, and the same to be set by the com-
mittees of observation until other persons are appointed ? Carried
in the negative.

FOR THE NEGATIVE.
Mr. Jordan, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Veazey,

Hooe, Beatty, Thompson,
Mackall, B. Johnson, Ewing,
Somerville, Baird, Hollyday,
Smith, Moale, Tho. Wright,
Allein, Tolley, Earle,
Sim, J. T. Chase, Richardson,
Beall, Hall, Scott,
T. Johnson, Love, Handy,
Carroll of Car. Dallam, J. Dashiell.

FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE.

Mr. Carroll, bar., Mr. Letherbury, Mr. Ringgold,
S. Chase, Sluby, Mason.
Gilpin,

On motion, Resolved, That the council of safety be empowered
to lend and advance to Robert Wood of Frederick county, three
hundred pounds of the public money on his giving bond with good
security, to lay out and expend the same in erecting a sheeting
and flitting mill, and to repay the same money into the public trea-
sury within ten months from the time it shall be drawn out.

On reading and considering a petition from Reuben Meriweath-
er and others, inhabitants of Anne Arundel county, praying leave to
form themselves into an independant rifle company, Resolved,
That the same be granted, and that commissions issue when the
company is completed to eighty men, to such persons as shall be
appointed by the council of safety.

On motion, Resolved, That no account or claim against this col-
ony shall be received without being first proved by the party ma-