Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the Committee of Observation for the county of Lancaster : At a meeting of the said committee, held at the Court-House, in the borough of Lancaster, on the 16th and 17th days of June, 1775. James Burd Esq ; in the chair : On motion of several members of this committee, which being fully considered and supported

Resolutions providing for payment from those whose religious tenets or conscience forbade their taking up of arms, and for dividing the county into districts for the formation of battalions of infantry