In Committee of Safety

Philada June 25th 1776

Sir

Your appointment as Commodore of the Pensylvania Fleet having produced a disagreable dispute between the Captains of the Galleys & this Board, which had determined to Support You in the Command, they now find themselves under a Necessity of changing their mode of proceeding by the interference of a very reputable Publick Body, The Conference of Committes, now met in this City who have recommended it to this Committee to Confine your Command to the Ship & Floating Battery and as for the sake of Peace & Unanimity amongst our selves & from an ardent desire to promote the Publick Good we are Induced to acquiesce in sd recommendation You are therefore to Confine Your orders to the Ship & Floating Battery the operations of which you are to direct in such manner as may be most usefull to this Province & the grand Cause of American Liberty