Whereas. Isaac Smith Esqr late of Boston, has Imported into the Town of Barnstable, within this Colony, in the Schr Sally, Ebenezer Nickerson Master, from St. Eustatius, a Quantity of Powder. ---- ²

Order'd, agreeable to a Resolution of the American Congress of the 15th July last, that he be & hereby is permitted to export, one hundred and fifty Quintals Fish to the West Indies (being about the Value of said Powder) in the Schooner Endeavour Jesse Harding Master, he the said Isaac Smith, giving bond, to the Committee of Inspection, for the Town, from wch he may Export the said fish, that he will lay out the Neat p[rocee]ds of the same in Powder, Saltpetre, or Sulphur, (provided they are to be had, at the port to which said Vessell may go) and Import the same into any ports within this Colony, (Boston & Nantucket Excepted.)