The Committee for Naval Affairs present their Compliments to the Committee of Safety for the Province of Pennsylvania, and acknowledge that they have been supplied by them with many important articles, which they could no where else procure, and are now brought to the necessity to beg the said Committee to supply the principal Surgeon of the American Fleet ² with thirty-six pounds of Salt-Petre, which they can no where else obtain, and is absolutely necessary for the service they have to execute.

By order of the Committee,