272 Journal and Correspondence

Application made to us by Job Green of this Place for a Permisⁿ
for the departure of a Schooner loaded with Provisions. This
Copy of said Resolve we should have sent to you before now,
had we not apprehended that M^r John Smith who was present
in Committee during the transaction had taken a Copy of it
with him, which we have Reason to suspect he did not, it
being reported to us that Job Green hath obtained from your
Board a Permisⁿ for the departure of said Vessel, which we
are inclin^d to think you would not have granted had you been
acquainted with the Circumstances of the Case.

In the mean time to prevent M^r Green making An Advan-
tage of your Permission untill you was fully informd the
Reasons of our refusing him Permission We have requested
Captⁿ Smith not to suffer the said Vessel to Sail before we
received further directions from you on the Subject. The true
State of the Case is as follows.

M^r Green lately Applyed to the Chairman to know if he
might have a Permit to load a Schooner with Flour to the West
Indies; which he was answerd he might have If he wou'd
engage to comply with the terms required by the Committee, of
giving Security in double the Value of the Cargo (when the
Vessel sailed) that the Vessel should not proceed to any Port
or Place prohibited by Congress or Convention. On promis-
ing these terms shoud be complied with, a Permit to load was
granted by the Chairⁿ to M^r Green) not suspecting that any
Fraud was intended: But being informd shortly after that the
Schooner which M^r Green had obtained Permission to load,
was a Vessel belonging to James Clarke of this Town who had
been a few days before publishd by this Committee as an
Enemy to the Interests of America of which M^r Green coud
not be ignorant; It gave us great Room to suspect that the
whole matter was a Collusion betwixt M^r Green & M^r Clarke
& only intended to evade the Incapacity of the latter from
Trading to which he was Subject by his Conduct. We
apprehend there is the more Room for such Suspicion from
M^r Greens Conduct which does not stand so fare as we coud
expect from a Friend to our common Cause.

But at any Rate we conceived that every Person was pre-
cluded from trading with M^r Clarke after he was publishd by
the Committee: And by M^r Greens own Acknowledgem^t
before it appeared that no Sale of the Vessel was made to him
before that time. p Order of the Comm^ee

Sam^l Purviance Jun^r Chairⁿ