The Committee of Inspection met, pursuant to adjournment. Present: Enoch Freeman, Esquire, Messrs. Daniel Ilsley, Benjamin Titcomb, Enoch Ilsley, John Waite, Stephen Waite, Benjamin Mussey, William Owen, Samuel Knights, Jedediah Cobb, John Butter, Jabez Jones, Smith Cobb, Peletiah March, Pearson Jones, Joseph Noyes, Samuel Freeman, Joseph McLellan, Theophilus Parsons

The question being put whether Captain [Thomas] Coulson's taking said Rigging and Sails out of the vessel in which they arrived, and his appropriating them to rig his new Ship, in order to send her to England, will be a violation of the American Association.

After a long and serious debate, it was

Resolved in the affirmative, by a majority of fourteen to five.

Voted, therefore, That said Rigging, Sails and Stores for said new Ship, ought forthwith to be sent back again, without breaking any of the packages thereof, by a majority of fourteen to five.

Voted, nemine contradicente, That all other goods and merchandise that were imported in said vessel ought also forthwith be sent back again without breaking any of the packages thereof.

Voted, That Messrs. Enoch Ilsley, John Waite and Daniel Ilsley be a Committee immediately to inform Captain [Thomas] Coulson of the result of this Committee; and that they are now sitting if he desires to attend them.

Captain Coulson attended and informed the Committee the Vessel in which his Rigging and Sails arrived was so out of repair, that she was unfit to return back again until she was repaired, and that in order to repair her the freight must be taken out.

The meeting was then adjourned to three o'clock P.M., to meet at the same place.

Three o'clock, P.M.

The Committee met, pursuant to adjournment.

Voted, That the Sub-Committees chosen by the first and second votes of yesterday, be discharged from any further service as Sub-Committees.

Voted, That this Committee will exert their utmost endeavours to prevent all the inhabitants of this Town from engaging in any riots, tumults, and insurrections, or attacks on the private property of any person, as pernicious to the real interest thereof, as well as injurious to the liberty of America in genrral, and that they will, as far as lies in their power, promote peace and good order, as absolutely necessary to the existence of society.

Ordered, That the result of this Committee, together with the foregoing vote last passed, be posted up in some publick place in the Town, signed by the Chairman.