31st July [1778, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Gentlemen
The Honorable The President of Congress having received an application from Timo Matlack Esquire, under the direction of your Honors, for "some blank Commissions for private Ships of War" has order'd me to transmit six, with proper instructions and Bonds, which your Honors will find under cover with this.1
The President has directed me to intimate to your Honors that it is necessary to return Bonds duly executed for the Commissions formerly lodged with the State of Pennsylvania, or for so many of them as have been actually issued, and that the remainder should be accounted for in due time. I have the Honor to be [&c.]
Mos. Young, secretary to the
President of Congress
LB, DNA, PCC, item 13, vol. 2, p. 37 (M247, roll 23).
1. The request is in the letter of Timothy Matlack of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council to Henry Laurens, 29 July, above.
