Navy Board [Charleston] 13th July 1778.
The Commissioners of the Navy beg leave to inform your Excellency that the Brigg Notre Dame is near Ready to Proceed on a Cruize, and will be Obliged to your Excellency for Commissions for the First and Second Lieutenants and Warrants for the Master, Gunner, Carpenter, Boatswain, and Surgeon, Agreeable to the Inclosed list,1 and if any particular Instructions are to be given to Captn. Hall, the Board will be glad to be advised as Early as Possible.2
By Order of the Board Edwd Blake first Commissr
His Excellency the President
South Carolina Commissioners, p. 166.
1. The list has not been found.
2. The instructions of the Privy Council are annexed to the Board's letter to Capt. William Hall of 20 July, below.