Capt. [Thomas] Shubrick, from the Committee to examine a ship now on the stocks at Capt. [Robert] Cochran's, reported, That having examined the said ship according to order, they found her every way unfit to be equipped, as a ship of war, in the colony service.

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to consider and report the best means, and an estimate of the expence, of building, with the utmost dispatch, two frigates, for the service of this colony, each to mount thirty-two guns on one deck: and also to consider and report the expediency of stationing armed vessels to protect the navigation of Beaufort and George-Town harbours.

Ordered, That Capt. [Thomas] Shubrick, Capt. [Alexander] Gillon, Col. [George Gabriel] Powell, Mr. [John] Edwards, Doctor [Benjamin] Farrar, Major [James] Mayson, and Capt. [John] Joiner, be a Committee for the above purposes.

Read a petition of John Sigell, steward to Lord William Campbell, of this date.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the following Committee, viz. Mr. Jacob Motte, Capt: Benjamin Huger, Capt. Hammond, Mr. Elias Horry, and Mr. John Parker: And that the said Committee do also consider and report, what may be proper to be done with the effects of Lord William Campbell, and a trunk of books belonging to James Trail; both having withdrawn themselves from this colony on board the Cherokee ship of war ー the latter, after having been enjoined, by the General Committee, not to go out of the limits of Charles-Town.