No 111

Sir, You are requested by the Council of Safety to purchase for the use of the public one good Scow proper for transporting heavy Cannon ー also let us know whether you can purchase any flat bottomed boats with 8 or 10 oars, that would carry fifty men each, or any Barges or whale boats ー please to let us hear from you, & the Price at which they may be got. ー if there be none to be had, whether you would undertake to have some built this fall. We are [&c.]

[Annapolis] 6th Augt 1776