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Your Excellency will find herein A letter from the Navy board requesting the Assistance of fifteen or Twenty Rope makers, they are exceedingly wanted as we have plenty of Hemp which should be worked up with all possible expedition and we think you will greatly promote the publick service by directing A Search through the Army for these Men or as many of them as can be got sending them down and they shall be rewarded to their Satisfaction for the service they p[e ]rform and May afterwards return. to their duty in Camp if it be their duty to return — We are &c &c