Resolved, That a standing committee, to consist of five members, be appointed to hear and determine upon appeals brought against sentences passed on libels in the courts of Admiralty in the respective states, agreeable to the resolutions of Congress; and that the several appeals, when lodged with the secretary, be by him delivered to them for their final determination:

The members chosen, Mr. [James] Wilson, Mr. [Jonathan Dickinson] Sergeant, Mr. [William] Ellery, Mr. [Samuel] Chase, and Mr. [Roger] Sherman.