Members of the Council of Safety appointed

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Resolved, That the Honourable Matthew Tilghman and John Beale Bordley, Esqs˙, and Robert Goldsborough, James Hollyday, Richard Lloyd, Edward Lloyd, Thomas Smyth, and Henry Hooper, Esqrs˙, residents of the Eastern Shore, and the Honourable Daniel of St˙ Thomas Jenifer, Esq˙, and Thomas Johnson Jun˙, William Paca, Charles Carroll, Banister, Thomas Stone, Samuel Chase, Robert Alexander, and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Esqrs˙, residents of the Western Shore, or any nine of them, be a Council of Safety for this Province.

That every member of the Council of Safety before he enters on the execution of his office, having subscribed the Association, take before some Justice of the Peace the following Oath, to wit:

"You, A˙ B˙ do swear that any matter or thing which shall come to your knowledge as a member of the Council of Safety, and which you shall know is by a majority of the Council ordered to be kept secret, you will not divulge, unless in a Convention of Delegates, or to the members of the Council of Safety, or with the leave of the Convention, or of a majority of the Council of Safety. So help you God."

That the Clerk of the Council of Safety, or of either of the said branches thereof, shall, before he enters on the execution of his office, before some Justice of the Peace, take an oath in the same form, except, instead of the words "as a member of the Council of Safety," inserting "as Clerk of the Council of Safety," or "as Clerk of the Eastern or Western Shore branch of the Council of Safety," as the case may be.