furthermore your Comtee having taking into Consideration Mr Francis Shaw[s] Letter: find in one Paragraft of sd Letter a Complaint, wherein he saith that the Schooner² People Complain of not being paid for Past Services, And Affraid it might be the Same for this Trip; therefore he was obliged to promis them that theire Musterrole would be paid Immediately on there Return ー Hoping that this Honorable Court would Inable him to make good his promis to them your Comtee therefore are of Opinion that as soon as Mr Shaw Shall produce his Musterrole of there Services to This Court: he may Receive out of the Publick Treasure So much as may be found Justly due on the Role Legally presented to Court for Allowance: for the said Sloop people: he giving Rect for the Money he may Receive for them

And as there is a Complaint against one 0 briant [Jeremiah O'Brien] in sundry of the Letters before Mentioned, your Comtee being informed that a Complaint of the Same Nature; if not the Same: is Soon to be heard before this Honorable Court: we make no Report thereon and whereas in Sundry of the before Mentioned Letters an Information is Given of one or More Ministerial Tenders are Infesting our Sea Coasts So that it is daingerous for our Coasters sailing

Your Comtee are of opinion that the Consideration of so Important a Matter ought to be Considered [by] the whole Court and not so small a Comtee

[Endorsed] In Council Sept 16t 1776