The Gunpowder Magazine is near full, at most it will not stow more than two hundred quarter Casks, and there is now delivering from on board a ship from Holland upwards of five hundred quarter Casks; in this dilemma, necessity compels me to trouble the hon. Council, in order to indemnify me from the Act of Assembly in storing the same, which cannot be otherwise done but through their honble Board. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,