The Secret Committee having reported, that the cargo belonging to the continent, imported in the Hancock & Adams, consisted of the following articles, viz. 72 chests of arms, 3fl barrels of gunpowder, 338 pigs of lead, 9 casks of gun flints, 1 case of pins, 133 barrels of tin plates, 5 cases of iron wire, 70 casks of salt petre, and 10 bales of merchandise:

Resolved, That the Secret Committee direct the entire cargo of the Hancock & Adams to be landed at Bedford, and deposited in places of safety, under the care of the committee of that place, until ordered from thence:

Congress took into consideration the report of the committee to whom that part of the report of the Marine Committee relative to the pay and rank of the marine, was recommitted;

Whereupon;

Resolved, That a bounty of 20 dollars be paid to the commanders, officers, and men of such continental ships or vessels of war, as shall make prize of any British ships or vessels of war, for every cannon mounted on board each prize, at the time of such capture, and 8 dollars per head for every man then on board and belonging to such prize:

That the rank of the naval officers be to the rank of omcers in the land service, as follows:

That the pay of all officers and men in the American navy, from the date of the new commissions, under the free and independerit states of America, be as follows per calendar month:

That vessels, under ten guns, to be commanded by lieutenants:

That the pay of the officers in such vessels be,

The other officers and men the same as in vessels from 10 to 20 guns:

Non-commissioned officers and soldiers the same as in the land service.