Anne Arundel County (Maryland) Committee

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At a meeting of the Committee of Observation for Anne Arundel County, held at Mr. Isaac McHard' s, the 10th of April, were present forty-three Members.

It being moved that a Paper printed in the Publick Ledger of the 4th of last January, entitled, "Facts relative to the Riot at Annapolis in Maryland" be read, and the motion being seconded, the Paper aforesaid was read accordingly by the Clerk:

On motion, Resolved, That the said Paper be reprinted in the Maryland Gazette.

2. Resolved unanimously, That the said Paper contains a false, scandalous, and malicious narrative of facts invented, by the author, or so disguised and misrepresented, that when they border upon truth, and even seem to assume, its semblance, they are devoid of its reality.

3. Resolved unanimously, That the Author of the said Paper has designedly injured, against the conviction of his own conscience, the characters of the gentlemen mentioned and alluded to in his publication, gentlemen of approved worth; that he has cast unjust and invidious aspersions on a great number of very respectable inhabitants of this and two adjoining Counties, by representing them as a lawless mob, ignorant of their interests, or too lazy to be at the trouble of investigating them.

4. Resolved unanimously, That the Author has manifested an inveterate enmity to the liberties, of this Province in particular, and of British America in general, by insinuating the necessity of introducing a military and mercenary force to support the Civil Government, and to secure obediente to the Laws of this Colony: that, by a suggestion so false and so malicious, he has inadvertently discovered his political opinion, that these Colonies ought, and his secret wish that they may be forced to submit to the arbitrary decrees of a despotick Ministry and, a servile Parliament.

ISSAC MCHARD, Clerk Committee.

Committee for Anne Arundel County, Maryland, declare a Paper printed in the London Publick Ledger of the 4th of January, entitled "Facts relative to the Riot at Annapolis, in Maryland," a false, scandalous and malicious narrative, and the Author of it an inveterate enemy to the liberties of the Province in particular, and of British America in general. [1775-04-10] Maryland, Anne Arundel County Committee of Observation; McHard, Isaac. [S4-V2-p0309] [Document Details][Complete Volume]