The Committee of Safety

v6:664

By order of the Board an Order was drawn on John Nixon, Esquire, and others, the Committee of Accounts, in favour of Messrs˙ Riddle, Rittenhouse, and De Haven, for eighty Pounds five Shillings, being the amount of three hundred and twenty-one and one-quarter pounds of Saltpetre manufactured at the Provincial Works in this City.

By order of the Board an Order was drawn on John Nixon and others, the Committee of Accounts, in favour of Captain William Richards, for four hundred Pounds; to be charged to his account.

Resolved, That William Watkins be appointed Captain of one of the Guard-Boats, &c.

v6:665

Resolved, That Robert Tatnall be appointed Captain to one of the Guard-Boats, &c˙, and his appointment to take place to-morrow.

Resolved, That the Committee meet to-morrow evening, at seven o' clock, to consider of a proper person to be appointed Commodore to the Fleet, and to take under consideration the Naval Armaments of this Province.

In Committee of Safety, May 28, 1776.