Meeting in Being according to adjournment

Voted. That Benjamin Tolman be Master Carpenter for the largest ship. ー

Voted. That Mr Jno J. Clarke go to Newport to morrow to purchase all the cordage he can not exceeding 20 Tons at not exceeding Nine Dollars PC also to hurry the Spars & pine Loggs to be got up as fast as possible, to buy all the good Barr Iron he can to call on James Daggett on his way & Ingage him to get all the Timber & Plank he can to Dispatch the Locus as soon as may be, to get what 2d 3d 4d 6d 8d 10d & 20d Nails he Can, Get all the clear pine Bords & Plank he can & make up the Qy with merchantable to 20m Feet, and as many of them in plank as he can, to engage what Iron hoops can be had in Newport @ 40/ [P C] & what white Oak Hhd Staves he can, @ 20 Dollrs P m dld in Providence to purchase Codlines, Pump & scupper Nails & English Augers of 1 & 1⅛ Inch ー to call on John Manly what he has done respecting the Sparrs & purchase all Milles Run ー

Voted. That Nicholas Brown Esqr be Treasurer & Pay-master to this Committee. ー

Voted. That Nicholas Cooke Junr & Joseph Russell Junr go to Philadelphia and bring sixty Thousand Dollars at least and as much more as Mr [Stephen] Hopkins shall think propper to send by them and that they be allowed six shillings P Day & Twenty Dollars each for their Horses, and their Reasonable expences. ー

Voted. That Nicholas Brown, William Russell & Jabez Bowen write a Letter to the Honble Stephen Hopkins Esqr to send by the Above Young Gentlemen, and that the same be signed by a Majority of this Committee.

Reckoning 22/6 paid By Coll Nightingale

Meeting Adjourned to Monday Evening 6 o'clock.