272 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776.

most convenient place for a court house and prison in the said
county, be the same as of voters for representatives in this conven-
tion.

Mr. Murray appeared in the house.

Ordered, That.no person who has refused or neglected to sub-
scribe the association (unless from religious principles) be per-
mitted to come within the doors of this house during the sitting of
the convention.

The convention took into consideration the report from the com-
mittee appointed to consider of the letter and resolutions of con-
gress of the sixteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth of September last,
and thereupon came to the following resolutions.

Resolved, That the eight battalions required by congress to be
raised by this state, exceeds its just quota, being as they presume,
founded on a calculation of white and black inhabitants of both
sexes and of all ages, whereas the quotas of men to be raised by
the several states, ought to be in proportion to the number of white
inhabitants only in each state respectively.

That this state ought not to comply with the proposed terms of
granting lands to the officers and soldiers, because there are no
lands belonging solely and exclusively to this state; the purchase
of lands might eventually involve this state in an expense exceed-
ing its abilities, and an engagement by this state to defray the ex-
pense of purchasing land, according to its number of souls, would
be unequal and unjust.

That this state desirous of exerting the most strenuous efforts
to support the liberties and independence of the United States, will
therefore use its utmost endeavours to raise the eight battalions re-
quired (including the troops already raised and in the service of the
United States) as soon as possible.

That for this purpose this state will give a bounty of ten dollars
to each non-commissioned officer and soldier who will enlist in the
service of the United States for the war, in lieu of the hundred
acres of land offered to them by congress.

That four commissioners be appointed to repair to the camps in
the Jerseys and New York, and there obtain a list of such of the offi-
cers in the regulartroops and flying camp from this state, now in the
service of the United States, as are willing to engage in the service
during the war; and also to enlist or cause to be enlisted all or ev-
ery of the said regular troops or flying carnp militia in the service
of the United States during the war, continuing the regular battal-
ion and forming the independent companies into a battalion, and
filling both up according to the continental establishment; and