Resolved that Joseph Leech, David Barron & Richard Ellis, be Commissioners to Load and Send out the Pensylvania Farmer reducing (until her return from said Voyage) the Number of Carriage Guns of said Vessel to eight, and the Number of Men to Forty, for the purpose of Purchasing Salt, Arms & Amunition, and also for importing Ten pieces of Cannon from Eighteen to Thirty two pounders, for the use and defence of this State.