Voted, That Capt. Ezekiel Worthen Proceed Immediately to Portsmouth as an Engineer and there Take care, & have, in conjunction with the Committee of safety at Portsmouth, the oversight & Direction of Laying out & Erecting Batterys for the Defence of Piscataqua Harbour, & get the Guns fixt & mounted therein and all other Necessarys for compleating the Batterys.

Voted That Capt Shadrach Hodgsdon Proceed Imediately to procure Fascines for building Batterys for the Defence of Piscataqua Harbour, and convey the same to Capt. Ezekiel Worthen or the Committee of Safety of Portsmouth as soon as may be.

Voted, That the Committee of Safety at Portsmouth be presented with the thanks of this Congress for their care in forwarding a Plan for the security of Piscataqua Harbour, and their early intelligence of those matters to this Congress ー and that they be inform'd that this Congress have given a Number of Directions to several Persons for providing Fascines and other Implements for Erecting Batterys; appointed an Engineer Imediately to attend there; and ordered a number of Barrells of Powder down with many other Directions: and shall proceed to do every thing they possibly can for securing the Harbour ー and they be desired to procure persons Imediately to remove the Platform and every other usefull Implement from Fort William & Mary, & Forbid any person or persons from Destroying the buildings there; and further inform the Committee, That it is the opinion of this Congress, That no Fish ought to be Exported out of this Colony.