Dr. McClean of this city, attending at the door, requested the sense of this committee whether he be at liberty to supply the ship Asia with drugs and medicines as he has heretofore done.

Agreed, That Dr. McClean be at liberty to supply the said ship with drugs and medicines in the same manner, and under the like restrictions that Mr. [Abraham] Lott is directed to observe in supplying the said ship with beer and water.

The committee having ordered some of the persons now in custody, and who were taken on board of the sloop commanded by one Dop, seized (by order of the Provincial Congress) last Sunday [September 3] by Col. [John] Lasher, proceeded to the examination of Daniel Rivers, one of them. Henry Acker, Jr. next examined; Abraham Freeligh next examined; Timothy Doughty next examined.

Ordered, That the letter of application from William McAdam, for a permit for the sloop Jean, to proceed to sea, and the inventory of her lading sent into Congress, and the short notes of examination of David Morris, the pilot, be delivered to the committee of the city of New-York, as a matter within their particular province, to which they are competent; and that the said committee be informed that David Morris, a pilot, is a material witness to be examined with respect to the sloop Jean.