On motion, Resolved, That no boat or other vessel belonging to this province, go out of this province, without a licence in writing from this Convention, the Council of Safety hereafter to be appointed, or from some committee of observation, and that the particular place such boat or vessel shall be designed to go to, shall be expressed in all licences granted by the committees of Observation. And if any such [boat or vessel shall be] navigated beyond the Limits of this P[rovin]ce without such Licence, or if after having obtained such Licence, the Skipper thereof shall, without absolute and inevitable Necessity go to, or touch at, any Place out of this Province, other than that mentioned in such Licence or shall carry any Person or Letter, of which he shall not give previous Notice to such Committee, or shall bring back any person or Letter of which he shall not give Notice to some Committee of Observa[tion,] as soon as may be after his return, such Skipper and all other Persons accessory to such Misbehaviour, may be punished by Imprisonment; but it is understood that this resolution is not to prohibit the crossing Patowmack, although the Boats or Vessals employed or used therefor should go up the Creeks or arms of Patowmack river making into Virginia, or to proh[ibit] passing or repassing at the Ferry on Pocomoke River.