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Boston, December 2d, 1776.
SIR: We have the honour to enclose you, by order of the General Assembly of this State, the petition and plan of Messrs˙ Fanueil and others, French gentlemen, together with the proceedings of the Assembly thereon , and to recommend them to the immediate notice of the honourable Congress, as the Assembly are of opinion the plan of these gentlemen may be adopted and improved by the Congress
FRANCIS DANA.
By order of the Committee.
To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq˙, President of the honourable Continental Congress.
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to the great benefit of the United States. They hope the Congress will take the matter speedily into consideration, as the gentlemen have been here upon considerable expense waiting the success of their application, and seem desirous of entering into their service.