The Council . . . taking into consideration the necessity of appointing a Navy Board: thereupon Resolved, That a Navy Board, consisting of Eleven Gentlemen to be appointed and have full power and authority to do and perform ー all matters and things relating to the Navy of this State, Subject nevertheless to the directions and examinations of this Council, from time to time as we may judge expedient, and saving to ourselves always the power of appointing Officers agreeable to the Constitution of this Commonwealth thereupon Resolved, That Andrew Caldwell, Joseph Blewer, Joseph Marsh, Emanuel Eyre, Robert Ritchie, Paul Cox, Samuel Massey, William Bradford, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Samuel Morris Junr, and Thomas Barclay, be a Navy Board, and that they or any Three of them be Commissioned and empowered to Act agreeable to the foregoing Resolution ー The Commission to continue in force until revoked by this or any future Supreme Executive Council And a Commission being made out accordingly, the same was signed by the President ー thereupon,

Ordered, That Mr. [John] Hubley administer to the several Members of the Navy Board, the qualifications required by the Constitution of this State for the faithful discharge of their Office.²