[Philadelphia] 15th August 1776
The Committee considering the favorable opportunity that now presents for shipping off Produce from this Port and other places to the Southward, the Enemies .Men of War having gone.
Agreed That the sum of eighty thousand Dollars be advanced Mr [Robert] Morris to be by him laid out in produce and exported on the Continental Account. Accordingly an order was drawn on the Treasurer in his favor for that sum.
1. Henry Laurens Collection, SCHS.