It being represented to this Board, that the publick landing at Quarles's Ware11o;se is a proper' place for building Vessells for the public service, and that the Warehouses there (at present useless) are very proper for reception. of the Workmen as well as the materials for carrying on the Work, and necessaries for subsisting the men, This Board think proper to recommend to the Court of the said County of King William to permit Mr Caleb Herbert and his Workmen to occupy so many of the said Houses as he shall find necessary as long as lie shall be engaged in building for the Country, and to allow him at the expense of the public, to make such necessary additions to the said houses as he may be directed to do by the Commissions of the Navy.

Ordered, that Colonel George Weedon of the 3d Battalion be permitted to apply to the Commissioners of the Gun manufactury at Fredericksburg or to Mr James Hunter for such Arms as they may have already finished for the publick, upon his delivering as many other Guns which are now in the possession of his Battalion in their room, which Guns are desired to be forwarded to this place without delay for the use of the marine Companies in York and James river