Read a letter from the Committee at Beaufort, dated Feb. 11, 1776, relative to the shippers of the cargo on board the brigantine William, Capt. Mercier, detained there.

Ordered, That the said letter, with the papers that were inclosed, be referred to the Council of Safety; and that they do report thereon.

On motion, The following resolution was unanimously agreed to:

Whereas the Continental Congress, on the first day of November last, prohibited exportation from the United Colonies, until the first day of March next: And whereas by reason of the distance of several of those colonies from Philadelphia, the resolution of the said Congress, relative to exportation after that day, may not be known for some time: And it may be injurious to the common cause of America, if exportation should be permitted in any colony, before such resolution shall be known there,

Resolved, That the said prohibition shall continue, and be of force in this colony, until the first day of May next, unless an authentic account of the determination of the Continental Congress, relative to exportation, after the said first day of March, shall be sooner received and published by the Council of Safety.

Ordered, That the foregoing resolution be forthwith printed in hand bills and made publick.

Ordered, That Mr. President do transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution to the Conventions of Georgia and North-Carolina, recommending, that those colonies do pass one similar thereto; and to our Delegates at Philadelphia, desiring them to give the Council of Safety the earliest intelligence of the proceedings of the Continental Congress on this subject.

Ordered, That Mr. President's Letter to Georgia be forwarded by a Committee of two gentlemen, to be delegated to make all possible representation to induce that colony to come into a similar resolution.