The Marine Committee, to whom was referred the complaint of the navy board in the middle department, against Captain [John] Barry,¹ report, as their opinion,

"That Captain Barry hath treated the said board, in the person of Mr. Hopkinson, one of that board, with indecency and disrespect, and that he ought, within twenty days after this resolve shall have been notified to him by the said board, make such acknowledgment as shall be satisfactory to them:"

On the question put to agree to the report,

Resolved in the affirmative.