Tuesday August 22d 1775
Whereas there are several offenders against the Continental Association now confined at Wilmington, it is resolved that an Express be immediately sent from this Town to Wilmington, requiring the Committee of Wilmington to deliver all such Delinquents as may be in Custody to a Guard directed to receive the same and safely to convey such delinquents from County to County in the most expeditious manner, that they may be brought before this Congress in order that their Demerits may be strictly enquired into, with such papers as were found in their Custody.2
1. Saunders, comp., Records of North Carolina, X, 170, 171.
2. There is no further reference to this subject in the journal, so the presumption is that Wilmington had no prisoners to forward. The actions of committees in cases of violation of the Continental Association was to post them for the proper resentment of the people.
