As the Act to Establish a board of Wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for other purposes therein mentioned, is already passed into a Law, and a new appointment of Officers must soon take place under it, Permit me to request that your Excellency and the Honorable Council, will be pleased to reappoint me to the Office of Collector of the Dutys of Tonnage, which by your good favor I have held above six months past, and also, to that of being one of the Wardens of the Post as formerly.
Should these appointments be continued to me, I promise that the same Assiduity and care in the discharge of the Dutys of the departments, shall be enployed that have hitherto been exerted by me, and which I hope may Justify the Choice in favor of Gentlemen Your Most Obedient and very Humble Servant