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Yours of this Date is before us, by which we Obsearve You have orders from the Honorable Marine Committee to Git all the Vessels Under your Command out as Soon as You Could Man them, and.As you Request of us to Devise some Method to Compleete the Same, we do Assure you that Nothing in our power, in a Constitutinel way, shall be wanting to Effect so Desireable an Object as the Sailg of the new Friggetes, And Recummend that the Strictest puntstuellity be Attended too that Every Man in the Navil Department be as Soone as passable paid off both his Wagers and Shears of all prizes heretofore tacon which will be a Grait Inducement for other Men to Ingauge in the Service, we are Not now a Committe but as Soone as we are make no doubt shall Resolve that all officers both Civil and Millitary within this State Give Every assist[a]nce in their power to Your Officers to Git their Men onbord, and hope more Care will be tacon to keep them their till the Ships Sail than has been heretofore used and if you have not a full Compliment of men to Attact Ships of any Considerable fource we think it adv[i]seable If you have a sufficient number to Navigate the Ships with Safety Round into Boston Bay to join the Continental Ships their that you immediately proceed We [have] no doubt that the State of the Massachusets Bay would Assist the Completion of your Complemt of men in a more Speedy manner than tis in the Power of this Small State to do (whose men are already so greatly exhausted) If not they will then be in a Place of Safety and may be rendered Servisable when ever fully manned which if they Remain here Cannot be Provided this Harbour is Blocked up which is Hourly Expected. — All the Deserters from your Ships that can be found in this State shall be taken Up & sent to you to Boston, if you think proper to go there.