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That for the ease and convenience of the people of Frederick
county, there be three different places of election; that the said
county be divided into three districts, to wit, upper, middle, and
lower; the upper district to be bounded by the south mountain,
and the lines of the county westward of the south mountain: the
middle district to bounded from the mouth of Monocacy with
Potowmack to the south mountain, with that mountain to the
temporary line, with the lines of the county to the head waters of
Patuxent, and with the lines of the lower district to Potowmack;

the lower district to be bounded with Potowmack to the mouth of
Monocacy, then with Monocacy to Bennett's creek, and with the
creek to the head waters of the Patuxent: that there be elected in
the lower district one delegate, two persons to act as a committee
of correspondence, and seventeen as a committee of observation:
that in each of the other districts there be elected two delegates,
and eighteen persons to act as a committee of observation, and
that three persons be elected in the middle district to act as a com-
mittee of correspondence. That the elections for the upper district
be held at Elizabethtown, those for the middle district at Freder-
icktown, and those for the lower district at Hungerford's; and
that no person residing or voting in one shall be admitted to vote
in. either of the other districts.

Resolved, That for encouraging the manufacture of salt-petre,
a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds common money be ad-
vanced, on proper security, for erecting one or more salt-petre
works, to be repaid in good merchantable salt-petre at the rates
herein after mentioned: and that for all good merchantable salt-petre
manufactured in this province and delivered to the order of the
council of safety, before the first day of October, 1776, there shall
be allowed at the rate of half a dollar per pound, according to the.
resolves of the continental congress.

That a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds common mo-
ney, be appropriated for erecting and working a powder mill on
the account of this province; and that the said two sums of one thou-
sand pounds each, be under the management of the council of
safety.

Resolved, That the committee of observation in each county
appoint one or more person or persons in their respective counties,
to receive all sums of money, which shall be voluntarily given, to
be applied towards the arming and defending this province, or to-
wards erecting manufactories of any kind, or for the immediate re-
lief of such of the inhabitants of this province as are or may be-
come necessitous, from the present general calamities; which per-