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and together with the several allowances therein
made ought to be paid by the Public

The President laid before the Convention
a letter from Colonels Howe and Woodford which
was read and ordered to lie on the Table.

Ordered that Mr. Joseph Jones Mr. Fitzhugh
Mr. Thomas Walker and Mr. John Walker be
added to the Committee to whom the Ordinance
for amending an Ordinance intituled an
Ordinance for providing arms and ammunition
for the use of this Colony.

A memorial of Lieutenant Colonel Christian
of the Second Regiment in behalf of himself
and William Preston and Arthur Campbell
Esquires was presented to the Convention and
read setting forth that some time in the
month of May 1774 he was advised by Lord
Dunmore to return home from the City of
Williamsburg and use his endeavours to prevent
the Inhabitants from leaving their Settlements
on the approach of the late Indian war that in
order to determine what had best be done a
council