96 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION [1776.

province, a new hat, short coat, waistcoat, pair of breeches, and
hunting shirt; out of their pay there may be reasonable stoppages
for necessary shirts, shoes and stockings.

That the uniform of the land forces and marines be hunting-
shirts; the hunting shirts of the marines to be blue, and those of
the land forces to be other colors.

That the ordinary stations of the said land forces be as follow:

That five companies of the said battalion, together with the com-
pany of light infantry, be stationed at the city of Annapolis, and
the other three companies thereof at Baltimore town.

That five companies of the troops, to consist of one hundred
men each, be allotted for the eastern shore.

That one company thereof be stationed in Worcester county;
one company thereof in Somerset county; one company thereof in
Dorchester county; one company thereof in Talbot county: and
that one half of the remaining company thereof be stationed in
Queen Anne's county, and the other half in Kent county.

That one company of the remainder of the said troops, to con-
sist of one hundred men each, be stationed in St. Mary's county:
and that one half of the other company be stationed in Calvert
county, and the other half in Charles county.

One company of artillery at the city of Annapolis, and the other
at Baltimore town.

But the council of safety may, in their discretion, more particu-
larly point out the stations of any of the said independentcompa-
nies, or companies of artillery, or may from time to time order any
of the said companies to change their stations with each other, or
in case of urgent necessity may change the stations of, or order
any part of the said forces in the pay of this province to join and
act together, or order any part of the said forces to the relief or
assistance of the colony of Virginia, the three lower counties on
Delaware, or province of Pennsylvania; the said council of safety
in the recess of convention, having the supreme direction of the
troops.

That the council of safety contract for supplying the rations for
the said land forces on the best terms, the contractors giving good
and sufficient security to comply with their contracts.

That every field and commissioned officer in the land forces,
shall, within one month after the acceptance of his commission,
and before he shall receive any pay as an officer, before some one
of the council of safety, or some justice of the peace, take and
subscribe an oath, which shall be endorsed and certrfied on the
back of his commission, in the following words, to wit: "I, A. B.