On the Recommendation of the Navy Board; it is Ordered that a Commission issue appointing Robert Bolling first Lieutenant of the Manley Galley in the Room of Lieutenant [Joel] Sturdivant who is Captain of the said Galley. ー dated 28th January 1771 [1777].

On the memorial of William Buchanan and sundry other natives of Great Britain residing within this Commonwealth, representing certain unforeseen impediments they have met with in their endeavours to bring the ship Albion round from South Quay to some convenient port for the purpose of transporting themselves to their native Country according to the _former order of the Board and praying therefore an allowance of further time. It is ordered that the said memorialists be allowed forty days more, to be computed from the expiration of the forty days last given, within which time they are hereby required to exert themselves in their preparations to depart this state as no farther delay will be suffered unless some very particular reason shall make it necessary.