Resolved, That the Marine Committee be empowered and directed to provide and get ready, with all possible expedition, ten fire ships; to be under the command of the commodore commanding in the river Delaware.

The Marine Committee, to whom was referred the petition of the lieutenants of the ships of war now inthe port of Philadelphia,² reported, "That they have called in, before them, the signers of the said petition; that they acknowledged, in the most explicit manner, that the offence for which they were dismissed is highly reprehensible, and could not be justified under any circumstances or on any pretence whatever, and that they were exceeding sorry for the rashness which betrayed them into such behaviour;" Whereupon,

Resolved, That the said lieutenants be restored to their former rank and command.