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At a meeting of the Committee of Observation for Anne Arundel County and City of Annapolis, on the fourth day of June, 1775, in the said City,
Mr˙ CHARLES WALLACE, Chairman,
A charge having been made on oath, before the Committee, that Thomas Chipchase, of this City, butcher, on the twenty-third day of May last, had killed several Lambs, he was ordered to attend. He appeared, and confessed the fact, alleging, as an excuse, that he understood that there was no absolute prohibition by the Continental Congress,
The sense of the Committee being taken on the above, they declared it a breach of the resolve of the Provincial Convention respecting the killing of Lambs; but, all circumstances considered, they were of opinion he ought to be forgiven.
Ordered, That these proceedings be published in the Maryland Gazette.
G˙ DUVALL, Clerk.
Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Committee
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and that the scarcity of provisions at that time would plead for him, as what he did was from a desire of supplying the many strangers in Town; but as he had since been informed that such procedure was contrary to a resolve of a Provincial Convention, he would take care to offend in that manner no more, and hoped the Committee would forgive him.