Meeting in being according to adjournment ー

Voted. That Coll Wm Russell, Mr Sylvester Bowers & Major [Benjamin] Tolman give Lists of the Names of all the Carpenters that are at Work in the Ship yards and that they affix the price that each man is to have P Day according to their several abilities as Workmen and make Report to the next meeting

Voted. That Messrs Clarke & Nightingale deliver Nine Tons of Pig Iron to Thos Arnold, Daniel Thornton & James Appleby [illegible] on the Acct an Resque of the Continent.

Voted, That Mr Manly agree with Mr Lee for all the Sparrs he has on hand on the best Terms he Can.

Voted. That Mr John Brown write a Letter to Mr. Hezekiah Sabin Merchant in New Haven and Request him to purchase for the use of the Continental Ships Two Hundred & Fifty Barrels [of] Poark and one hundred & fifty Barrels of Beef the price of the Poark to be at 54/ and the Beef a 40/ P Bbl at New Haven, that if it cannot be procur'd at the above prices, that he write to Mr John Brown on the same subject immediately, that he be allowed Two & an half P cent for doing the Business, and tha[t] Mr John Brown Draw on Messrs Jos. Dolb, Russell and Nichs Cooke to pay to the said Mr Hezekiah Sabin the Sum of three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars, to pay for the same, and that he purchase Two Hundred Bushels of Beans & Pease, that a Majority of the Committee sign the Order. ー

Voted. That we send a Messenger to Connecticut to procure Draught of the Ship to be Built there immediately.

Reckoning 28/ 6 paid by [blank]

Meeting Adjourned to Wednesday evening 6 o'clock. ²