The Committee of both Houses appointed to take into Consideration sundry Resolves of the Continental Congress and Report, have attended that service, and Report on the Resolve of said Congress dated October the 26th, 1775 as their Opinion, that a Committee of both Houses be appointed to engage & Fix out with all possible dispatch on the Account and Risque of this Colony, Ten Vessels to be laden with as much Provision, Horses, or any Other Produce of this Colony, except Horned Cattle, Sheep, Hogs & Poultry, as they may deem necessary for the Importation, of Ammunition, Sulphur and Salt Petre, Arms and German Steel, for the Manufacturing Gun Locks, &c, And that the said Committee be empowered to give Orders to the Commander of such Vessel to export the said Cargo to the Foreign West Indias for the Purposes aforesaid ー all wch is humbly Submitted.

In Council Read and Sent down

[Endorsed] In the House of Representatives Read and Accepted

In Council Read and Concurred and Thereupon

Resolved that William Sever, Benjamin Greenleaf & Moses Gill, Esqrs with such as the Honble House shall join be a Committee for the purposes mentioned in the above Report.

[Endorsed] In the House of Representatives Read and Concurred and the Speaker, Colo [Azor] Orne, Capt [Joseph] Foster, & Major [Stephen] Cross are joined to the Committee of the Honle Board ー