The Marine Committee, to whom was referred the memorial from Messrs. F. Hopkinson and J. Wharton, brought in a report; Whereupon. 

Ordered, That six hundred dollars be allowed to each of the memorialists, for their extra services in Bordentown, and to defray their expences to Baltimore.¹ 

The Committee on the Treasury brought in a report: Whereupon, 

Ordered, That a warrant issue on Nathaniel Appleton, Esq^r. commissioner of the continental loan office in the State of Massachusetts bay, for 11,666⅔ dollars, in favour of the Committee of Commerce, to enable them to pay Archibald Mercer and Philip Moore, the valuation of the ship Two Friends, and the ship Moore, chartered and insured by the said Committee, and taken by the enemy, as appears to them by protests regularly made;² the said Committee to be accountable: 

That 10,174 88/90 dollars be advanced to the Committee of Commerce, to discharge Samuel and Robert Purviance's bill of the 25 April last, on the said Committee, in favour of Elbridge Gerry, Esq^r. for that sum, it being the amount of their accounts against the ship Chase and the snow George, the said committee to be accountable:³