Gentlemen.

Yours of the 9th Inst. was delivered to us this day at twelve o'Clock, and we immediately handed the Packet inclosed to the President. It contained the Act of Parliament for restraining the Trade of the Colonies passed in December last, and which was received here in the Begining of February; Our friends in South Carolina supposed we might not have received the Act and therefore sent the first Copy they received ー There having been an Arrival of Powder lately On Account of the Congress we just before the Rect. of your Letter borrowed a Ton and shall send it to Chester Town to wait your Order. in the Distribution thereof ー Every other Colony has been supplied from the Continental Magazine Hesitation ー We are Gent. [&c.] & this was spared Th Johnson Junr to us T. without Stone

Phila April ~2th 1776 OClock night ー