" Resolved, That if any person or persons shall be " found guilty, before the Committee of any City " or County, of attempting, (after the date of this "Resolution,) to furnish the Ministerial Army or " Navy with Provisions or other necessaries, contrary " to the Resolutions of the Continental or of this " Congress ; 5 or of holding a correspondence, by letter " or otherwise, for the purpose of giving information " to the said Army or Navy, of the measures pursued " by the United Colonies or any of them ; 6 or of ad- " vising expedients which the. said. Army or Navy "might or ought to pursue, against the said Colonies

6 The Provincial Congress not only had passed no Resolutions prohibiting the supply of " the Ministerial Army and Navy with provisions or other " necessaries," thereby,' oven from the revolutionary' standpoint, leaving that business open to whomsoever might embark in it ; but, on the morning of the day on which this enactment was made, it gave its official sanction to the supply of the Asia, man-of-war, with its necessary supplies, from the City of New York, and with water and beer, from Brooklyn, all of them by Abraham Lott, the official "Agent-victualler "for His Majesty's Ships in this Pqrt," ( Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Veneris, 9 ho., A.M., September 1st, 1775.") Four days afterwards, Doctor McLean was authorized to supply the same ship, with Drugs and Medicines, as he had previously done, {Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Die Martis, 9 ho., A.M., September oth, 1775.") On the twenty-ninth of January, 1776, William Allen had permission to go on board the Asia, to measure the men for shoeB, and to make and deliver a hundred pairs, if so many should be needed. (Journal of the Committeeof Safely, "Die Luna', 10 ho., A.M., January 29th, 1776.") On the sixteenth of February, 1776, Henry White was permitted to supply the Asia and the Phoenix with fresh provisions and vegetables. (Journal of tlie Provincial Congress, '-Die Veneris, 10 ho..