Sir,

Cap^t Allen Hallet has requested me to write a few lines to the Hon^ble Council to inform them that he is now ready to sail immediately, equipp'd entirely, saving the want of about twenty Men.—that there are now that number & more on board our Guard Ships that are willing & desirous to enter with him, able bodied & hearty Seamen, who are so fond of going with Him, that they are daily swimming on board his Vessell.—He begs therefore that Council would grant him a power to take from the Guard Ships the Number deficient which will be about twenty, & he will be at Sea in less than four hours.²—He now informs me that Council is not sitt^g: to day,³ & begs that I would direct this to your Honor, & request you if you shoud think it prudent, (considering his circumstances) to grant him your permission for that purpose, which Liberty having before been granted, immediately upon solicitation. I hope his request will be deem'd a sufficient intrusion.—I am Sir [&c.] 

In Council July 27^th. Read & ordered that the Commissary of Prisoners⁴ be and he hereby is directed to permit such and so many of the Prisoners now on Board the Guard Ship who will voluntarily inlist the Number not to exceed twenty, to go on Board the Brig Tyranicide⁵ Commanded by Allen Hallet Esq' in the Service of this State 

read and Accepted 

Jn^o. Avery D^y Sec^y