The committee on the petition of Stacey Hepburn, brought in their report, which was agreed to as follows:

That the said petitioner be permitted to load the sloop Dolphin, with the produce of these colonies, (live stock and lumber for making casks excepted) and to transport the same to Hispaniola, he promising to use his utmost endeavours to remit the amount of such cargo in military stores, into some port of this continent, as soon as possible. ²

The Committee appointed to prepare a resolution for the exportation of naval stores, brought in the same, which was agreed to as follows: ³

Resolved, That when navel stores shall be wanted in any of the United Colonies, the assembly, convention, or committee of safety of such colony, may entrust a proper person or persons to import the same, taking sufficient security of him or them, that they will faithfully use their best endeavours to import the same into such port or ports as the said assembly, convention, or committee of safety shall direct, and, as much as possible, to avoid all British men of war and cutters; giving him or them, a certificate or certificates of the naval stores wanted, and also of his having given the said security: And that it be recommended to the convention, council of safety, and committees of observation and inspection of North Carolina, upon receiving such certificates, to permit the person or persons producing the same to export the naval stores wanted by the colony applying for the same to such colony.

That it be further recommended to the said convention, council of safety, and committees of inspection and observation in North Carolina, to give permission to such vessels as may have arrived in that colony, for those articles, or such of the vessels belonging to that colony, as they may think proper, to export naval stores to any of the United Colonies, they taking security as in the other cases above mentioned.

A petition from Mr. Bernard Romans, was presented to Congress and read:

Resolved, That it be recommended to the convention of New York, to pay Mr. Bernard Romans up to the 9th day of this month.