Resolved that for the safety of the Trade of this Commonwealth there be immediately set upon the point of Land at Cape Henry on a staff fifty feet high at least, a white flag striped with Red to be constantly kept hoisted in the day when no enemy is within the Capes and taken down when an enemy appears; that there be also hoisted on the sd staff a proper light to be kept constantly burning in the night Time when no Enemy is within the Capes and taken down on the approach of the enemy, and that Colo Thomas Reynolds Walker of Princess Anne be desired to have the same properly executed, and the Commander Officer of the Garrison at Portsmouth be directed to keep a subalterns or Serjeants Guard at the Cape for the purpose of hoisting the flag by day, and keeping up the light by night, and to give Intelligence of the approach of the enemy.