A petition from J. Rowe and others, owners of goods on board the ship Elizabeth, which was taken by captains John Manly, Daniel Waters and John Ayres, commanders of the three armed vessles Hancock, Lee and Lynch, and libelled in the court maritime for the state of New Hampshire, and, by the sentence of the said court, acquitted; against which sentence, an appeal has been entered, was presented to Congress and read, praying that the said appeal may be heard and determined; Whereupon,

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed, with full powers to hear and determine on the appeal brought against the sentence passed on the libel against the ship Elizabeth.

The members chosen, Mr. [Robert Treat] Paine, Mr. [Samuel] Huntington, Mr. [Thomas] Stone, Mr. [George] Wythe and Mr. [James] Smith.²