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The two Schooners soonest ready please to dispatch to Baltimore, in Ballast to the address of Messrs Purviance, with the Letters inclos'd with orders to Dunnage 2 foot, or 2½ feet, & bring back a Load of Pigg Iron, to Plymouth, Boston or any other safe Port in this State. —

. . . we have engag'd Pay to no Masters or Seamen in Case of Capture, the difference of Wages between War & peaceable Times is a consideration for the risque of Capture: —

. . . If the Masters of the Schooners bound to Baltimore think the Risque desperate, they are directed to run up to Philadelphia, & apply to Mr Andrew Black for Cargoes. . . .