FEDERATE DELEGATIOX. 55

ert Goldsborough, William Paca, SamuelChase,
Thomas Stone, and John Hall, esqs. or any
three or more of them, be deputies to represent
this province in continental congress, and that
they, or any three or more of them, have full
and ample power to consent and agree to all
measures, which such congress shall deem ne-
cessary and effectual to obtain a redress of
American grievances; and further, we do au-
thorise our said deputies, to represent and act
for this province in any continental congress,
which may be held before the 25th day of
March next. (Signed,)

G. DUVALL, Clerk.

Two members were added to the delegation
from Maryland, in December 1775, by virtue
of similar credentials:—viz: Robert Alexander
and John Rogers, esq.

By subsequent instructions from the conven-
tion at Annapolis, of the 28th June, 1776, which
will be found in a preceding page of this book,
the restrictions in the forgoing instructions
were removed, and the deputies of Maryland,
or any three or more of them, were "authorised
and empowered to concur with the other united
colonies, or a majority of them, in declaring the
united colonies free and independent states," &c.

A commission, on which two gentlemen from
Maryland were employed by congress, at this
period, deserves to be noticed:—