The report of the committee of the city and county of New-York, of their inquiry relating to the destroying of the boat lately ordered to be built for His Majesty's ship Asia, was read and filed.

The said committee reports the names of a number of witnesses by them examined, and the substance of the examinations of the said witnesses whereby it appears that the said committee could not discover any of the persons who were concerned in destroying the same boat.

Ordered, That Mr. [Jacobus] VanZandt and Mr. [Isaac] Sears employ two prime sailing boats, with proper persons, to go to the eastward, to observe if they can discover any fleet steering towards the westward. That Mr. VanZandt and Mr. Sears direct the masters of such boats as they may employ, to give the speediest intelligence to this Congress of any fleet they may discover; and give them such other directions as they may think proper.

Resolved and Ordered, That the fortifications formerly ordered by the Continental Congress, and reported by a committee of this Congress, as proper to be $built on the banks of Hudson's River, in the Highlands, be immediately erected.

Mr. Walton dissents.

And that Mr. Isaac Sears, Mr. John Berrien, Col. Edward Fleming, Mr. Anthony Rutgers and Mr. Christopher Millem, be commissioners to manage the erecting and finishing the said fortifications. That any three or more of them be empowered to act, manage and direct the building and finishing thereof.