Sir/

The Inclosed Copy of a Resolution of your Excellency and the Privy Council was delivered to the first Commissioner this day, by which no Negroes on board any of the Vessels of the State will be Insured, But as the Pilot Boats are not particularly Mentioned, we are at a Loss to know whether or not the Negroes Employed in them are Included in the said Resolution, we shall therefore be Obliged to your Excellency to Inform the Board, whether or not they are, as the Commissioners have Assured some of the Owners of the Negroes now Employed on board the Pilot boats, that they are, and of Course they are bound to make good the Value of such Negroes to the Owners, and in case such Negroes are not Insured, the Owners will take them from on board, and the Boats will by that means be rendered useless