5 Dec 77
The Bill1 to make sale of the Armed Vessels of this State and to apply the monies arising therefrom to the defence of the Sea Coast,2 read the first time and passed. Sent to the Commons by Mr. Salter and Mr. Sanders.
Clark, ed., State Records of North Carolina 12: 173.
1. Proposed in the House of Commons on 20 Nov. 1777. Ibid., 12: 283.
2. Specifically the river and harbor of Cape Fear. Ibid., 12: 170.