Resolved that John Hutchings Esqr be first Commissioner of this Board Protempore

Ordered that a Warrant Issue to John Hart for Nineteen pounds twelve shillings and four pence for Necessaries furnished the Schooner Revenge Capt [William] Deaneー

Ordered that a Warrant Issue to William Cook for four pounds one shilling and six pence for Nails Bolts and other Articles furnished Capt William Deane for the use of the Schooner Revengeー

Ordered that a Warrant Issue to Capt Edward Travis for four hundred and thirty one pounds for Disbursements and for the payment of his Men from the time of their Enlistment to this day²

Ordered that a Warrant Issue to Lieutenant James Quarles for One hundred and twenty two pounds one shilling & three pence. it being the Ballance of his Account for recruiting Service and for the Payment of his Company of Marines from the seventeenth day of April One thousand seven hundred and seventy six to the thirty first day of July following ー Ordered that a Warrant Issue to Capt Thomas Lilly for thirty pounds on Account for necessaries furnished the Brig Libertyー

Ordered that the Gallies to be Built by Mr Caleb Herbert pursuant to an Order of the Honourable the Congress³ be of the following Dimensions, to wit, Seventy one feet Keel Twenty feet Beam six feet Hole and six Inches dead Riseー

Ordered that Mr William Frazer one of the Contractors for the district of York River do Furnish Caleb Herbert with provisions necessary for Victualling the Workmen now Building a Row Gallie under the direction of the said Herbert pursuant to an Order of Congressー⁴