52 Proceedings of the Maryland Convention, 1775.

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one Pounds Seventeen Shillings & Six pence Current money,
as will appear by the Receipt for the same ready to be
produced.
That by a Subsequent Resolution of the said Committee,
on the 24^th instant the said Guard was discharged, on the
application of your memorialist for that purpose, upon your
memorialist giving an obligation with five securitys not to
depart the Province without leave of the said Committee or
this Convention, and your memorialist presuming with all defer-
ence, to say, that the Letter in question, the contents of which
has excited so much uneasiness in the minds of the good
people of this Province, could not be productive of any ill
effect being wrote by a private individual to his friend and
relative, a person who had not the power, if he had the inclina-
tion, and who from regard to his own private interest and
from the Tyes of Blood (his Wife, Family and fortune being in
this Country) cannot be supposed to be active in devising
measures to crush the Libertys thereof, and in the most
solemn manner your memorialist averrs, that he never har-
bourd a wish to introduce a Military Force into this Province
for the purpose of enslaving the Inhabitants thereof, and your
memorialist begs leave to add that he is extremely sorry that
his private opinion should have given any offence he was far
from intending any, he considered himself as writing to a
friend in confidence, and had no expectation or wish that such
private opinions would ever appear in publick, or be produc-
tive of any publick measures whatever.
That the said Committee having referred all further pro-
ceedings on your memorialist's case to the Gentlemen, dele-
gated by this Province to the Continental Congress, and they
having referred the same to the consideration of this Conven-
tion obliges your Memorialist to make this application, humbly
to request that this Hon^ble Convention will consider your
memorialists' case, and discharge your memorialist and his
securitys from the said obligation, and also grant permission
to your memorialist to depart the Province with all conveni-
ence, without molestation in person or property.
Your Memorialist relying upon the Wisdom and humanity
of this Hon^ble Convention most chearfully submits his case to
their decision. Humbly praying,
That the blessings of Peace and Tranquility, may be restored
to every part of the British Empire, that the Rights and Privi-
leges of America may be established on a firm and lasting
Basis, and a speedy and honourable reconciliation take place
between the Parent State, and her Colonies, is the sincere
wish of your memorialist
James Christie Jun^r
Baltimore July 27^th 1775.