A letter from Brigadier-General Heath, was received and read. He therein mentions that a sloop is arrived from Albany, with a number of women and children and baggage taken at St. John's, and sent here by Gen. Schuyler, on their way to New-Brunswick, that the captain was fearful of going to Brunswick lest his vessel might be detained by the ships of war on his return, and he requests the committee to take the management of obtaining a pass from Capt. Vandeput, for the sloop to go to Brunswick and return, which he doubts not will be readily granted, as it will obtain every convenience for the prisoners. 2 Ordered, That a member wait on the General and inform him that there are boats here from Brunswick who will readily receive the prisoners and baggage and carry them to Brunswick, and that he request the General to order the prisoners and baggage to be sent by those boats.

Die Lunae, 4ho. P.M. April 1st 1776. Simeon Deane, attended with a copy of an agreement, dated the 11th Jany. last, between Samuel Ward, Benjamin Franklin and others, a committee of secrecy of the Continental Congress, and Silas Deane and Barnabas Deane of the Colony of Connecticut, authorizing them to ship the produce of the United Colonies to proper ports in the foreign West Indies, and in Europe, to the amount of thirty thousand dollars, with an appointment thereon, dated the 21st of January, to Simeon Deane, to carry the said contract into execution. Simeon Deane informed the Committee that he has had separate permits from Mr. Ray, and other gentlemen of this city, as a sub-committee of the general committee of the city, but that the whole exports in consequence of the agreement, do not much exceed half the sum permitted to be exported, and requested a farther permit for 230 barrels of flour. 3

Ordered, That the general committee of the city of New-York, or the sub-committee of inspection and exportations, be at liberty to permit Simeon Deane on account of the said contract, to export from New-York to Connecticut, with design to be thence exported to some foreign port, 230 bbls. of flour, (on the usual terms or bonds on which he formerly exported,) in a sloop whereof John Reiley is master.