Mr Ebenezer Finley, lodged with the Board, ten thousand Dollars which he received from the Continental Treasury for the use of Messrs Maxwell and Loyall appointed by Congress to superintend the building two Frigates in this State, on account of the United States. Ordered that a receipt be given Mr Finley for the same, signed by the presiding Member, and that the said Money be lodged in the Publick Treasury till called for by Messrs Maxwell & Loyall.

Richard Heywood and others, Sailors on board the Henry Galley Robert Tompkins Commander, exhibited a Complaint in writing against the said Tompkins, setting forth, "That their wages have for a considerable time past been detained from them by the said Tompkins, to their great prejudice and disadvantage, as well as to the Service in which they are engaged, &,may be a means of deterring and preventing others, to whom a knowledge of this may come, from entering into the Navy, Also that Captain Tompkins is guilty of many other Malpractices, such as making away with and Selling the provisions & liquors belonging to the Galley, & applying the Money to his own use, selling the Arms put into his care, for the use of and belonging to the Commonwealth, and Suffering his inferior Officers to do the same, Wantonly using, and firing away the Powder on board the said Galleys, instead of keeping it to answer better purposes, making his Clerk draw up the Pay rolls one to receive, and the other to pay by, getting drunk frequently, ill treating, and abusing the Men on board, and many other practices, all of which are too intolerable to be any longer borne or submitted to by these Complainants as well as on account of this Commonwealth as to the injustice done to themselves. Therefore praying that the Board will take the matter into their most serious consideration, and either remove or displace the said Robert Tompkins from the command of the said Galley["] which Complaint being read before the Board, It is Resolved that the same be heard on Friday next, at which day Captain Tompkins is directed to attend this Board, and It is Ordered that the parties respectively produce their Witnesses, to be then examined touching the same.