Whereas, the general assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations did, at their session in October last, pass a resolve, empowering the governor to grant comm1ss10ns or letters of marque and reprisals to private vessels of war, giving such instructions, and taking such bonds, as should be agreeable to the resolutions of Congress, until commissions could be procured from Congress:

Resolved, That acts done under such commissions, as have hitherto been granted by the governor of the said State, by virtue of the said resolve, be of the same force and validity, as if they had been granted by Congress, under the signature of the president.

That it be recommended to the governor of the State aforesaid, not to grant any more commissions, to recal such as he may have issued, and to deliver out continental commissions in their stead.