Capt. Samuel Tuder one of the superintendents of the Continental frigates building at Poughkeepsie, attending, informed the Committee that the said frigates were by the Honourable the Continental Congress, ordered to be launched as soon as possible, that one if not both of them will be ready to be launched in a few days, but that they are at present destitute of anchors and cables. Capt. Tuder therefore requests that he may be furnished with an order on the person at the landing at Fishkill, for the loan of such an-chors, cables and other stores belonging to and taken out of the vessels sunk at Fort Washington, as may be necessarily required in the launching of the said frigates. Thereupon,

Ordered, That the person who hath the charge of the anchors, cables and other stores at Fishkill landing, and which were taken from on board the vessels now sunk at Mount Washington, deliver to Capt. Samuel Tudor, or his order, such of the said anchors, cables or other stores as he may require for the use of the Continental frigates building at Poughkeepsie.

Resolved, That Mr. Gilbert Livingston be one of the secret committee directed to be sent down with the utmost despatch to Fort Montgomery, with such parts of the chain as is fixed in the logs, and that Mr. Henry Wisner, Junr. cooperate with him in carrying this measure into execution in the most safe and expeditious manner possible.

Capt. Saml Tudor, one of the superintendents of the building the Continental frigates at Poughkeepsie, informed the Committee of Safety that the said superintendents have lately received a raft of timber for which they are indebted, and daily expect some other rafts of timber for which they are to pay ready money. That the said superintendents have also some other accounts to discharge, are at present destitute of money, and cannot obtain a supply from the Treasurer of the marine committee

Mr. Tudor therefore on behalf of the said superintendents, requested an advance or a loan of £600.

Ordered, That the Treasurer of this State advance to Capt. Samuel Tudor as one of the superintendents, on his receipt, the sum of £600, and charge the same to Continental account.