[Extract]
No 130.

. . . the proportion you are to retain in your hands is two thirds of all the Prizes, and Effects sold, that were taken by the Defence. — had the men not received Pay, they would have been entituled to one half, but they having been constantly paid, are entituled only to one third under the Resolves of Convention. — We are &c.

[Annapolis] Jany 27th 1777. —