In Convention of the Delegates of the People of the State of Maryland 28 April 1788.

We the Delegates of the people of the State of Maryland having fully considered the Constitution of the United States of America reported to Congress by the Convention of Deputies from the United States of America held in Philadelphia on the seventeenth Day of September in the Year Seventeen hundred and eighty seven of which the annexed is a Copy and submitted to us by a Resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland in November Session Seventeen hundred and eighty seven do for ourselves and in the Name and on the behalf of the People of this State assent to and ratify the said Constitution.

In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names-

RICHD BARNES CHARGES CHILTON N LEWIS SEWALL WM TILGHMAN. DONALDSON YEATES ISAAC PERKINS WILLIAM GRANGER JOSEPH WILKINSON CHARLES GRAHAME JNo CHESLEY Junr W. SMITH G. R. BROWN J PARNHAM ZEPH. TURNER MICHAEL JENEFER STONE R. GOLDSBOROUGH junr EDWD LLOYD JOHN STEVENS GEORGE GALE HENRY WAGGAMAN JOHN STEWART JOHN GALE Ns HAMMOND ABRAHAM FAW WM PACA J RICHARDSON WILLIAM RICHARDSON MATT: DRIVER PETER EDMONDSON JAMES McHENRY JOHN COULTER

GEO: PLATER President- DANIEL SULLIVAN JAMES SHAW JOS: GILPIN H HOLLINGSWORTH JAMES GORDON HERON SAML EVANS FIELDER BOWIE OSB SPRIGG BENJAMIN HALL GEORGE DIGGES, NICHOLAS CARROLL. A C. HANSON JA. TILGHMAN JNo SENEY JAMES HOLLYDAY WILLIAM HEMSLEY PETER CHAILLE JAMES MARTIN WILLIAM MORRIS JOHN DONE THS JOHNSON THO. S. LEE RICHARD POTTS THOMAS SPRIGG JOHN STULL MOSES RAWLINGS HENRY SHRYOCK THOS CRAMPHIN RICHD THOMAS WILL DEAKINS Junr BEN: EDWARDS

Attest-W^M HARWOOD Clk.

(1) Reprinted from Documentary History of the Constitution, Vol. II (1894), pp. 121, 122. Back