Service and direct the payments of all Monies incurred under those Heads as well as the payment of the Extra Artificers and of the various Branches under its Cognizance and that it should have the entire management and direction of all the armed Vessels, Gun Boats, Batteaux, Flat Bottom Boats, Sloops and small Craft that may be necessary and expedient for carrying on of the publick service with the reparations also requisite for the whole and authority to order all the necessary transportation and conveyance of Stores &c by land or Water for these several objects; having first reported their opinion to the Commander in Chief, and having his permission and Sanction for such Plans being finally carried into execution. This arrangement to include likewise the Establishment of a Ship Yard with a Master Carpenter for inspecting into the state of all the Army Vessels which by this proposed arrangement will of course be collected under one head from the several departments and for keeping them in constant repair. All these Officers are already in a great measure established. In order that the King's Service may not be retarded, and that the Establishments, when they may be finally fixed upon, may be constantlly compleat in every part. The Board to No. 1 Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in the Capt Henry Chads, Agent. direct the construction of all Workshops, storehouses and Buildings to be inclosed in proper Yards for the purpose of Repairs; and for refitting whatever may be lost or damaged in the unavoidable exigencies of the Service; as it will tend much to the benefit of the Service to have Storehouses immediately erected to serve as deposits for Provisions, with buildings to contain all the requisite Articles for the Equipment of the different Vessels &c. The Board to finally determine upon all such matters, and to order their being carried into execution if they appear upon the Examination of the Board to be useful and right to be done. The Position of these Yards, Storehouses &c to be fixed in such Situations as their Expediency and propriety may point out. The Board to order all Surveys and Musters of every Department in the Army, whenever it may be judged proper & fitting to take them, and all Estimates attending the publick Works to be laid before it; which they will immediately lay before the Commander in Chief. Major Bruin being sent for delivered into the Board sundry Returns of Vessels, Drivers, Horses and Waggons furnished by the Quart Master Generals, Vizt: |