You are hereby required & directed to send to North America by theShips mentioned on the otherside hereof, in the proportions against their Names express'd, One Hundred of the Landmen borne as supernumeraries on board the Guardships at Spithead, to serve on board such of the Ships under the command of Lord Howe, as his Lordship shall judge proper towards completing their respective Complements, taking care, that they are healthy able bodied Men, and causing Pay Lists to be made out for their Wages, from the days of their original Entrys, to the day of their removal into the said Ships, where they are to be borne as supernumeraries for Wages & Victuals, Til otherwise disposed of by the directions of Lord Howe. Given &c 18th. June 1776.

By &c P.S.