[Annapolis] Tuesday 25th June 1776
Mr. Smyth withdrew from the Council of Safety. ー and a new plan for constructing Row-Gallies, or Gondolas, having been laid before the Convention, and approved of by them,2 and Messrs Steward and Galloway and Thomas Smyth not being able to compleat the building seven vessels in time, 'tis agreed by consent of all parties, that the former contract be dissolved, and a new agreement is this day entered into as p the written Contracts filed. ー
1. Council of Safety Journal, 29 August 1775 to 20 March 1777, Md. Arch.
2. From Journal of the Convention, Tuesday, June 25, 1776:
Resolved that the Council of Safety contract for the building fitting & equipping with all Expedition Seven Row Gallies of such Construction & space as they may think most proper at the public Expence ー instead of the Seven Gondolas directed to be built by Resolution of this Convention in the last Session thereof.
Red Book, II, Md. Arch.