Resolved, That the Committee of Safety be desired to lay before the Convention a list of the armed vessels now fitting out for the defence of this colony, with a state of the condition they are in, and an account of the cannon, arms, and ammunition, provided for them.

Mr. [Archibald] Cary, from the Committee of Privileges and Elections, reported, that the committee had, according to order, examined into the cases of Josiah Rogers, William Bliss, and David Ramsay, prisoners confined in the public jail, and had agreed upon a report, and come to the following resolutions thereupon; which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the clerk's table, where the same was again twice read, and agreed to.

It appears, that Josias Rogers was a mate in the Roebuck ship of war, which had taken a vessel bound from Cape Francois to Philadelphia, into which he was put as prize master; that the sailors rose against him, and, the vessell running on shore, he was taken prisoner.² That William Bliss was a soldier in captain Pickett's company of Provincials; that he had deserted to Lord Dunmore, and returned again. That David Ramsay was a sailor in a vessel belonging to Joseph Scott, in the county of Nansemond, which was taken by the enemy; that the said David Ramsay was afterwards employed by the provincial prisoners who were put on board that vessel to provide them with fresh provisions, and that the said Ramsay was active in procuring such provisions, and, having a pass from Anthony Lawson to come on shore, in quest of some vegetables, he was taken and sent to jail.

Resolved, That the said Josias Rogers is a prisoner of war, and that this resolution be communicated to the commanding officer.

Resolved, That the said William Bliss appears to be guilty of desertion, and that he ought to be delivered over to the commanding officer, to whom the resolution should also be communicated.

Resolved, That the said David Ramsay be discharged.