Navy Board

The Board Mett According to Adjournment

Present

Edward Blake Esqr first Commissr
Josiah Smith, Thos Corbett, Thos Savage, Roger Smith Esqrs.
Order of the Privy Council —

That the Commissioners of the Navy may purchase ten hands for workmen in a shipyard and write for three white workman from the Northward that they may Lease [Robert] Cochrans place on the Terms proposed or such [indecipherable word] and terms as they shall think Necessary for the Public Service

Agreed to hire or Lease Capt. Cochrans Ship Yard with five Negroe Workmen, and Every Building thereon as formerly Hired or Leased to Paul Pritchard, for Twelve Hundred Pounds Currency P Annum ー