346 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776.

AFFIRMATIVE.

Mr. Barnes, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Earle,

Plater, I. Smith, Kent,

B. Hall, J. T. Chase, Dickinson,

Marbury, Gilpin, Johnson,

S. Chase, D. Smith, Geo. Scott,

Paca, Brevard, Chaille,

NEGATIVE.

Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Bayly, Mr. Archer,

Dent, Williams, Ewing,

Parnham, Fischer, T. Smyth,

B. Mackall, Edelen, Bruff,

Grahame, Schrirer, S. Wright,

Fitzhugh, Beall, Edmondson,,

J. Mackall, Stull, Gibson,

Bowie, Ridgely, Mason,

Sprigg, Deye, Gust, Scott,

Hammond, Stevenson, Horsey,

J. Hall, Bond, Bishop,

Worthington, Love, Mitchell.
J. Wilson,

Convention adjourns till to-morrow morning, 9 o'clock.

FRIDAY, November 8, 1776.

Convention met. All members present as on yesterday, except
Mr. T. Wright. The proceedings of yesterday were read. Mr.
Hooe and Mr. Shepherd appeared in the house.

Resolved, That the privates to be enlisted agreeable to the re-
solve of this convention, be by their voluntarily subscribing an en-
gagement in the following words, that is to say, "We whose names
are hereto subscribed, do voluntarily enlist ourselves soldiers to
serve as such during the present war between Great Britain and
America, unless sooner discharged by order of the congress; here-
by subjecting ourselves to such rules and regulations as are or shall
be made by the congress, for regulating and governing the forces
in the pay of the United States'"—And that the recruiting serjeants
who are or shall be appointed in each county by the council of
safety, after they have enlisted ten men, shall report the same to
such proper and fit person or persons appointed by the council of
safety in the counties where the said recruiting serjeants may re-
side, who shall muster and pass the said men, and the said recruit-
ing serjeants shall immediately return two copies of his muster roll,