In the House of Representatives. Whereas a number of Masts, & Spars collected by Edward Parry, are now at Kennebec River in the care of a Committee of this Court; and it is represented that they are liable to receive damage where they lay, and are not accessible in the Winter Season. — Therefore —

Resolved, that the Honble. Board of War be, and they hereby are impowered and directed to take the said Masts, & Spars into their possession, and dispose of them for the benefit of this State as they shall judge proper, and the said Committee are hereby directed to deliver them on demand to the order of said Board, they first causing them to be apprised by indifferent and discreet men, taking the Marks and numbers of each Mast, & Sparr, and transmitting the same with their apprised Value to the said Board of War.

In Council. Read, & Concurred

Consented to by 15 of the Council. —