[New York] Die Sabbati, 9 ho. A.M., August 5th, 1775
Mr. John Foster informed the Congress that the committee of the several towns in Suffolk county, have resolved not to permit any cattle or live-stock to be shipped off from Suffolk County; and further informed the Congress that if he may be permitted to send a cargo of live stock to the West Indies, he does engage to bring back in return, military stores for the benefit of this Colony, if the same can be obtained in the port or ports to which the vessel shall touch, and give the first offer of the sale thereof to this Provincial Congress or such other Provincial Congress of this Colony as shall then be sitting. Mr. Foster's proposal being agreed to by the Congress,
Ordered, That Mr. Foster be permitted to ship a cargo of live stock to the West Indies, that he may be thereby enabled to procure military stores.
The order of the day being read, the Congress resumed the consideration of the resolutions moved by Mr. [Isaac] Low on the second inst. The same were read, and being again read paragraph by paragraph, on the reading the second resolution, to wit, the last paragraph, Mr. [Alexander] McDougall moved that the word base be obliterated, and the word insolent inserted in its stead. And the same being unanimously agreed to,
Ordered, That the said amendment be made.
The last paragraph being read, Mr. McDougall then moved that the words "and enemies to their country," be obliterated; and debates arising thereon, and the question being put it was carried in the affirmative . . .
Ordered, Therefore, that the words "and enemies to their country" be obliterated.
Mr. Gilbert Livingston then moved, (and was seconded by Mr. Melancton Smith,) that the said motion and resolution be wholly rejected. and the question being put thereon, it passed in the negative . . .
Resolved and ordered, therefore, That the said resolutions, with their preambulary recitals or introductions, as amended and agreed to, be entered on the journals as part of the proceedings of this Congress, and that the same be published in the newspapers . . .
Ordered, That the committee of the city of New-York be requested to send for any such persons before them as they shall think proper to examine; and that they take examinations and every other such measure as they shall devise or think proper, to discover the persons who sawed and destroyed the boat lately ordered to be built for the use of His Majesty's Ship Asia. And that they report their proceedings and discoveries therein to this Congress, with all convenient speed.