Committee of Safety to the Committee of Supplies

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Cambridge, May 19, 1775.

GENTLEMEN: Mr˙ Benedict Arnold having been authorized and empowered to raise and furnish a number of men, not exceeding four hundred, to proceed against and reduce the garrison at Ticonderoga, with its dependencies, has, we find, in consequence of said commission, been supplied with fifteen oxen, by Mr˙ Thomas Wells Dickason; and this Committee being informed by said Dickason that the Committee of Supplies wanted a certificate of said order and appointment, that they may with propriety discharge the order of said Arnold on the Committee of Safety, have handed this, presuming it may be sufficient to satisfy the Committee of Supplies of his (said Arnold' s) appointment. We would observe that the above-mentioned cattle are at Newport. You will give such directions respecting them as to you in your wisdom shall seem meet.

We are, &c.