In Committee.

On reading a letter from Danl Wolstenholme Esq Collect[o]r of his Majesty's Customs on North Potowmack, setting forth that by advice of his physicians, he intended to leave this province and return to Great Britain, his native country, on account of his infirm State of health, for which purpose he had obtained a warrant, from the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Board of Treasury in London. Yet the peculiar Circumstances of the times, joined to his own inability to prosecute the intended voyage had unfortunately prevented him from embracing the opp[o]rtunity, within the time limited by the aforesaid warrant. By which means he is utterly disenabled by peculiar circumstances from making a second application to their Lordships for a renewal of it, and hoping under such a predicament to be able to justify his conduct in his proposed departure finds himself under the necessity of making immediate application to this committee for the grant of such a passport as may enable him to leave the province with safety to himself and that security to his property, which he hath ever hitherto enjoyed so soon as he can with convenience to the present situation of his affairs, procure a passage for that purpose.

Thereupon Resolved unanimously, that the said Daniel Wolstenholme Esq have leave to depart this province (with his effects unmolested) to Great Britain at any time hereafter as shall by him be judged most convenient for his health and private concerns, and that the Chairman make out a passp[or]t, to be delivered to the said Danl Wolstenholme Esquire agreable to this Resolve.

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