Whereas, the Secret Committee, by the absence of a number of the members, are reduced to two,

Resolved, That a new committee, to be styled, the Committee of Commerce, be now appointed, to consist of five members; that this committee be vested with the powers granted to the Secret Committee, and that the remaining members of the late Secret Committee be directed to settle and close their accounts and transfer the balances to the Committee of Commerce:

The members chosen, Mr. R Morris, Mr. P Livingston, Mr. W[illiam] Smith, Mr. [Thomas] Heyward, and Mr. Gerry.

Ordered, That the case of Nicholas Davis, formerly referred to the Secret Committee, be referred to the Committee of Commerce.

On application from the Marine Committee,

Resolved, That a warrant for forty thousand dollars be drawn on the commissioner of the loan office in Massachusetts bay, in favour of John Bradford, and a warrant for five thousand dollars on the deputy pay master general, in Virginia, in favour of John Tazewell, the continental agent there, for the use of the frigate Virginia; and·another warrant for twenty thousand dollars on the commissioner of the Joan office in the State of Connecticut, in favour of Governor Trumbull, for the use of the frigates building there, the same being in part of the money heretofore granted to the Marine Committee.