Ordered that a Warrant Issue to Capt Gabriel Jones for Four hundred and forty four pounds one shilling and three pence for the pay of his Company of Marines to the twenty ninth day of August last as P Pay-roll this day settledー

George Brett personally appeared before the Board and Agreed for the Sum of six pounds P Ton to Build a Row Galley on Mattapony River of the following Dimensions, Vizt, Eighty one feet Keel Twenty one feet Beam seven and a half feet Hold, Square Stern'd with a Quarter Deck thirty feet long three feet Waist with Quick Work as high as the Sills of the Ports, Ten Gunn Ports. The Plank (except for the Decks) and all the Timbers to be of good sound white Oak of Proper sizes and the Plank for the Decks to be of good two Inches thick Yellow Pine, the whole to be finished in a Workman like manner with as many Ports as can conveniently be Rowed in also Oars, Masts, Yards and all necessary spars fitted to a Cleet and to be delivered by the first day of April nextー