[Annapolis] Tuesday, June 25, 1776
On motion, Resolved, That the Council of Safety contract for the building, fitting out, and equipping, with all expedition, seven row gallies, of such construction and force as they may think proper, and at the public expence, instead of the seven gondolas directed to be built by resolutions of the Convention in the last session thereof.
On motion, Resolved, That the Council of Safety immediately order detachments of the militia to such convenient posts as may be judged necessary to prevent any communication with the Fowey man of war.
Post Meridien
A letter from captain Montagu, of the Fowey ship of war, of this day, to the president of the Council of Safety, was laid before the Convention, and read. Thereupon it is ordered, that the president of the Council of Safety be directed to write a letter to captain Montagu in the following words, to wit.
In Council of Safety, 25th June, 1776.
Sir, By command of the Convention I enclose you their resolution of yesterday, which expresses the occasion of discontinuing an intercourse with the Fowey, which was wished and expected to have ended more satisfactorily. Any measures that may be attempted for the ostensible cause of stopping the governor's baggage must properly be imputed to your breach of the truce, and will be resented in full proportion to the injury.
