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The Naval Committee give possitive Orders, that every Officer in the Sea and Marine Service, and all the Common men belonging to each, who have enlisted into the Service of the United Colonies on board the Ships now fiting out, that they immediately repair on board their respective Ships as they would avoid being deemed deserters, and all those who have undertaken to be Security for any of them are hereby called upon to procure and deliver up the men they have engaged for, or they will be immediately called upon in a proper and effectual Way.

Boats will constantly attned at Messrs. Willing and Morris's Wharf to carry all people on board the Ships.

Philadelphia Jany 4th 1776.

By order of the Committee