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My dear sir

I am favoured with yours of Sepr. 15^th. & suppose that eer this will reach You y^e Orders of y^e Commercial Committee, for y^e Disposal of y^e several Cargoes consigned to You by Mess^rs. Gardoquis, will be received. Y^e Anchors & Cordage will of Course be delivered to your navy Board; & with respect to y^e Duck, Medicines, & Salt, I think it will be y^e surest Way, to deliver to y^e Board what is immediately wanted of each, & inform Congress thereof, together with y^e Necessity that led to this Measure. My Rea­son for this proposal, is that y^e Disposition already made of these Cargoes, that will require a Reconsideration, w^ch. Committees as well as Congress are generally averse to: whereas, there will be no Difficulty in approving your Conduct, when evidently founded on y^e Necessity of y^e Case. Y^e Blankets, I fear, cannot be spared from y^e Army. A timely application to y^e marine Board for such other Articles as may be wanted, which should be particularly enumerated, will produce y^e Order which You desire....