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bn or before the first day of May next, any thing in the said or any
other resolve to the contrary notwithstanding? Resolved in the
affirmative.

AFFIRMATIVE.

Mr. Barnes, Mr. Hughs, Mr. T. Smith,

Hooe, Schnebely, T. Wright,

Dent, Shepherd; Kent,

Semmes, J. Smith, Edmondson,

Jordan, J. T. Chase, Gibson,

B. Mackall, H. Wilson, Chamberlaine,

B. Hall, Love, Goldsborough;

Sprigg, Archer, Murray,

Marbury, Gilpin, John Ennalls,

Carroll, Ewing, Potter,

J. Wilson, D. Smith, Horsey,

Bayly, Brevard, Chaille,

Edelen, T. Ringgold, Mitchell;

Schriver, Earle,

NEGATIVE.

Mr. Plater, Mr. Wootton, Mr. Bond,

Parnham, Ridgely, W. Ringgold,
Fitzhugh, Deye, S. Wright,
Bowie, Stevenson, Gus. Scott.
J. Hall,

Ordered, That the above resolution be inserted in the Maryland
Gazette and Baltimore town papers four weeks successively.

Mr. Gustavus Scott brings in and delivers to Mr. President a re-
port from the committee appointed to consider of the disposition
of captures, which was read and ordered to lie oil the table.
Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

SATURDAY, September 14, 1776.

Convention met. All members present as on yesterday, except
Mr. Gilpin, Mr. Ewing, Mr. Brevard, Mr. T. Wright, Mr. Kent, Mr.
Goldsborough, and Mr. Marbury. The proceedings of yesterday
Were read.

It being represented to this convention, that in the year one
thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, an act of assembly
passed, directing the justices of Talbot county to levy oh the in-
habitants of that county forty-five pounds of tobacco per tax, to be
paid at thre'e annual payments, for the purposes of purchasing land