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Proceedings of the Conventions of the Province of Maryland, 1774-1776
Volume 78, Page 211   View pdf image (33K)
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1776.] OF THE PROVINCE OF MARYLAND. 211

Mr. Samuel Chase brings in and delivers to Mr. President a re-
port from the committee of elections, which was read in the follow-
ing words :

" The committee of elections beg leave to report, that by the re-
turn of the election for Saint Mary's county, Richard Barnes, Igna-
tius Fenwick, George Plater, and Jeremiah Jordan, Esquires, were
elected agreeable to the resolve and direction of the last conven-
tion.

" That by the return for Charles county, the same was partly held
at the place directed by the last convention, and partly at another
place, by the unanimous consent of the voters, and that Robert T.
Hooe, John Dent, Thomas Semmes, and John Parnham, Esquires,
were elected for the said county.

"That by the return for Calvert county, Benjamin Mackall,
Charles Grahame, William Fitzbugh, and John Mackall, Esquires,
were duly elected agreeable to the resolve and direction of the last
convention. »

"That Walter Bowie, Luke Marbury, Osborn Sprigg, and Tho-
mas Sim Lee, esqrs., are returned by Jeremiah Magruder, Hum-
phrey Belt, and Thomas Boyd, as duly elected for Prince George's
county.

"That the inhabitants of the county agreed, that every taxable
bearing arms, being an inhabitant of the county, had an undoubted
right to vote for representatives at this time of public calamity; that
the judges appointed declined to act, and that they appointed the
judges who made the return aforesaid.

"That by the return of the election for Anne Arundel county,
Rezin Hammond, Brice Thomas Beale Worthington, Charles Car-
roll, barrister, and Samuel Chase, esqrs., were elected agreeable to
the resolve and direction of the last convention.

" That for the lower district of Frederick county, Thomas Sprigg
Wootton, Jonathan Wilson, William Bayly, junr. and Elisha Wil-
liams, esqrs., are returned by judges appointed by the committee of
that district, duly elected by a majority of voters, resident of the
district, who had armed in defence of the country.

That by the return for the middle district of Frederick county,
Adam Fischer, Upton Sheredine, Christopher Edelin, and David
Schriver, esqrs., were elected agreeable to the resolve and direc-
tion of the last convention.

" That by the return for the upper district of Frederick county,
Samuel Beall, Samuel Hughs, John Stull, and Henry Schuebely,
esqrs., were duly elected.

"That by the return from Baltimore county, Charles Ridgely,

 

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