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The Committee of Claims think it necessary that you should satisfy Them, that the Prices you have charged for the Plank & Timber made Use of in the Ship Defence, does not exceed the Prices charged by others for the same Kind of Plank & Timber or that you could have got the same Prices from Individuals as those with which the Province is charged2
Signed by Order of the Committee
Date: 20 May 1776
Volume: Volume 5
We send you by Mr [John] Barry the £ 400, you desire may be transmitted by him, and will write you fully about the Masts, Sails, Rigging, and Cordage, also the weight of Metal of the gallies as soon as we see Mr Stewart [Stephen Steward], who has proper Drafts of those vessels &c, and has engaged the necessary Cordage. We are &c:
Date: 17 October 1776
Volume: Volume 6
Sir, Your's by Mr [John] Barry we have received, and are glad to hear you have launched one of the Row Callies, and that you are pushing the other on, as fast as possible. — As to the masting we must refer you to Mr Stephen Steward, who is now in your Town. —Inclosed is an order on the commissary for Sheet Lead for the purposes you mention. — Mr Barry brings the Amount of the Account for the...
Date: 27 December 1776
Volume: Volume 7
Sir Herewith you will receive the Balance of your Accot for Row Galley No 1. — Likewise an advance of four hundred Pounds to go with No 2. — both which vessels, you must recollect, ought by your Agreement to have been finished by the 30th of October Last. — therefore double diligence is certainly now necessary to forward the other, with all expedition, which we hope, and trust you will do. —
We...
Date: 1 January 1777
Volume: Volume 7
Capt Walker 2 requested our Directions to you, as to finishing the upper Works of the Vessel you are now building for the Public, whether we would have it done in the Ship or Galley Fashion; he says he thinks it would not be inconvent to you to delay the Finishing of her 'till the one Capt Walker is in is rigged, if so we should be glad you would delay it 'till an Experiment can be...
Date: 17 May 1777
Volume: Volume 8