Doctor McLean was authorized to supply the same ship, with Drugs ami Medicines, as he had previously done, (Jmirnnl nf the C'onniiilter of Siifet;/^ "Die Martis, '.I ho., .V.M., Septendier .jth, 1775.") On the twenty-ninth ^)f .lanuary, 177li, William .Mien had permission to go on board the .IsiVi, to measure the men for shoes, and to make and deliver a hundreil liaii"s, if so many should bo needed. {Jonnitil of the Committee of Sofefif, "Die Luna', 10 ho., .\.M., January 29tli, 177(5. ') On the sixteenth of February, 17715, Henry White was permitted to supply the Asui and the PhieiiLr with fresh provisions and vegetables. {Jotmiol of the l\oviiiciiil CoiKjrexx, ' Die Veneris, 10 ho., A.M., February Kith, 177G.")

While the Provincial Congress was thus inonopoli/.ing the supplying of the men-of-war, it "was filled with the utmost anxiety ' when, during the Autumn of 1775, " small boats from (Queens and Westchester-coun- "ties" undertook to enter into the same business ; and "to [irevent .so "greata mischief," a small armed vessel was purclnisod, " to watch those "and other dangerous supplies of the like kind," -- {The Committee of Sofiiii to the Xeir- Y<o-k Deleijoles in Continentnl Comjresn, " In Committee ok "Safety, New-York, .lanuary 22, 177(1.") On the seventh of February, 177(), when the Chairman of the Connnitteo of the City asked permission for an Hniutitted applicant to send on board the Asia, two hogsheads of Spirits, two dozens of Coffee, anil one dozen of Cho<'olate, the solicited permission was withheld until the name of the applicant could be ascertained, which does not appear to have been .accom]>lished, {Letter from Henry Itemnen, Cliaintotu of the Cmnmittee of the Cil;!, to the Committee of t^ifetji, and the reply of the latter, both undated : Journal of tlie Committee of tyifeli/: " Die Mercurii, 10 ho., .\.M., Feh'y 7th, 1770.")