The Committee appointed to consider the Account of Capt. Jeremiah Obryan, reported:

That by examining said Obryan's Account they find the whole of the provision, &c. for Billeting the men under his Command, amounts to no more than Five Shillings and Six Pence per Week each, and as said Capt. OBryan has no other Vouchers, the Committee are of Opinion, that his Account is just; said Account being Three Hundred Seventy-one Pounds, and the Account for Cordage, Tallow, Iron, &c. belonging to the Vessels, by said Obryan's Account, is the further Sum of One Hundred Twenty Five Pounds, Five Shillings,... out of which sum he, the said Obryan, has received the Sum of One Hundred and Sixty Pounds, which leaves the Sum of Three Hundred and Thirty Six Pounds, Five Shillings. The said Committee therefore, report the following Resolve, viz.

Read and accepted.

Resolved, That there be paid out of the Public Treasury of this Colony to the said Capt. Jeremiah Obryan, the Sum of Three Hundred and Thirty Six Pounds Five Shillings, in full discharge of said Accounts.

Further Resolved, That there be paid out of the Public Treasury of this Colony to Capt. Jeremiah Obryan, his Officers and Seamen, under his command since the 21st Day of August, 1775, on board the Sloop Machias Liberty, and the Schooner Diligent, the Sum of Eight Hundred and Four Pounds, Four Shillings and Two Pence, in full discharge for their Services on board said Vessels, until the first Day of February, 1776.