Beverly 6 Jany 1776
Sir
After Receiving yours p Yesterday togeather with the Resolve of Congress inclosed I find by Examining there appears to me to be a Contradiction in this parragraft which I now inclose a Coppy which please to inform me
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Resolved that all Transport Vessels having on board any Troops Arms Ammunition Cloathing provissions or Military or Naval Stores of what kind soever, and all Vessels to whomsoever belonging that shall be employed in Carrying provisions or Other Necesaries, to the British Army or Armies or Navy ー that Now are or Shall hereafter be within any of the United Colonies shall be Liable to 2 forfeiture and Confiscation, unless the said Vessells so Employ'd belong to an inhabitant or inhabitants of these United Colonies ー in which case the said Vessel or Vessels togeather with her or their Cargoes, shall be Liable to Confiscation I am Sir [&c.]
William Bartlett
1. Washington Papers, LC.
2. The copyist at headquarters, who supplied the resolution to Bartlett, had omitted at this point the following: "seizure, but that the said cargoes only be liable to." See Volume 2, 1132.
