Ordered that the Register of the Court of Admiralty, be directed to furnish this Board with a List of the Crews, libelled in the said Court.

All Captains, Mates, and Mariners who have been taken on Board any British merchant ships, and who now remain prisoners on parole in this Commonwealth, are directed to repair to this Board with all convenient speed in order to their being exchanged and the several Officers of this State in whose custody any such prisoners are; are required forthwith to send them to the City of Williamsburg; and it is ordered that copy of this Requisition be published in the Virginia Gazettee.

The Board, finding it absolutely necessary in Order to procure Arms, and other Articles for the use of this State, to lodge a sum of money in the west Indies for that purpose, finding the Commodities of this State too bulky and unprofitable to be exported in small Boats, which for the sake of expedition and safety must be employed, have come to the Resolution of purchasing Indigo in South Carolina to the value of ten thousand pounds, to be carried from Charles Town in boats to the agent of this State in the West Indies, and for that purpose have employed St George Tucker esquire to negociate the Business at Charles Town, in Consideration of which he is to be allowed two and half per Cent Commissions, and the Liberty of transporting in the sd Boats Indigo on his own accompt to the value of two thousand pounds free of freight, he advancing to this State in the Hands of our Agent at St Eustatia on Loan the sum of one thousand six hundred and sixty six dollars to be repaid him here in paper dollars of this State, and that William Aylett esquire be directed to give the instructions necessary for carrying this Scheme into execution.