Councils of Safety Exercising Power in the Intervals
Between Conventions.

August 14, 1775 (first met August 29). This and all other com-
mittees served from the close of the convention at which they were
elected to the close of the one next succeeding. Eight were from
each shore of the bay. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, President;
Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, Thomas Smyth, Henry Hooper,
William Paca, John Beale Bordley (declined to serve), Richard
Lloyd, Edward Lloyd, James Hollyday, Charles Carroll, Barrister;
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Thomas Stone, Samuel Chase, Robert
Alexander and Robert Goldsborough..

January 17, 1776 (first met January 18). Daniel of St. Thomas
Jenifer, President; Charles Carroll, Barrister; John Hall, Benjamin
Kumsey, James Tilghman, Thomas Smyth, Thomas Bedingfield Hands..

May 25, 1776 (first, met May 27). Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer,
President; Charles Carroll, Barrister; John Hall, Benjamin Rumsey,
George Plater, James Tilghman, Thomas Smyth, Thomas Bedingfield
Hands, William Hayward..

July 5, 1776 (first met July 6). Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer,
President; John Hall, George Plater, Charles Carroll, Barrister;
Benjamin Rumsey, Thomas Smyth, James Tilghman, Joseph Nichol-
son, Jr., Thomas Bedingfield Hands (declined to serve), and Nicholas
Thomas, appointed September 17, 1776..

November 10, 1776 (first met November 12). Served until March
20, 1777. March 21, Senate adopted a resolution, followed by the
House on the 22nd, dissolving the Council of Safety because the new
government was organized. The Legislature had been in session since
February 5. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, John Hall, George Plater,
Brice Thomas Beale Worthington, Joseph Nicholson, Nicholas
Thomas, Charles Grahame (declined to serve), James Tilghman (de-
clined to serve), William Rumsey (declined to serve), Thomas Contee
(chosen to fill Grahame's place), Samuel Wilson (chosen to fill Tilgh-
man's place), William Hemsley (chosen to fill Rumsey's place, de-
clined), James Lloyd Chamberlaine (appointed by Council January 8,
1777, to fill Hemsley's place, declined), Turbutt Wright (appointed
by Council February 3, 1777, to fill Chamberlaine's place)..

MEMBERS OF THE PROVINCIAL CONVENTION, AUGUST 14—
NOVEMBER 11, 1776, WHICH FRAMED THE FIRST
STATE CONSTITUTION.

MATTHEW TILGHMAN, President
GABRIEL DUVALL, Secretary.

St. Mary's County—Richard Barnes, Ignatius Fenwick, George Plater,.

Jeremiah Jordan.
Kent County—Thomas Ringgold, William Ringgold, Joseph Earle,.

Thomas Smyth.
Anne Arundel County—John Hall, Brice T. B. Worthington, 1 Rezin.

Hammond, Samuel Chase,1 Charles Carroll, Barrister. 1
Calvert County—Benjamin Mackall, Charles Grahame, William Fitz-.

hugh John Mackall..

Charles County—Robert T. Hooe, John Dent, Thomas Semmes, John
Parnham..

1 Resigned August 27, 1776. Worthington and Chase were re-elected September
10, 1776. Hall elected in place of Carroll..