18 Coils 80 each 2 16 — 2 [4?] 20 d° d° d° 1¾ 14 1 2 8 20 d° d° d° 1½ 12 — 3 8 24 Coils 5 thread hooks 18 — — 16 d° 12 d° ratlines — 8 — 14 d° 9 d° d° 6 — — 18 lb 6 d° worming 4 — — 16 d° 4 d° d° 4 — — 14 d° 2 d° d° 3 — — 20 C^t 10° of 4 3 & 2 yarn Spunyarn 1688 1 2 [undecipherable] 1 sheet anchor cw^t 56 3 d° each of 45 2 d° d° 25 2 d° d° 16 2 d° d° 12 1 d° 9 1 d° 7 * NB. Cordage or rigging materials of the first quality may be purchased at the present time, at about £ 60 p^r ton :- War Department Nov. 15 1791 [Pierce Butler] Sir I have the honor to submit to you and the Committee of the Senate, an estimate of building and equipping a ship of forty guns rated at 1300 tons — and also an estimate of the ordinary expences of maintaining such a ship for one year, stating the strength of the crew at three hundred and fifty men of all descriptions. I do not submit to the Committee the cost of the frigates built during the late war in the United States, as the circumstances then and now are, so widely different as to preclude any accurate estimate of the present expence of building from the charges during the war. I conceived it would be much more authentic in order to ascertain the present prices, to have the principal workmen in this city consulted on the occasion under the idea of a commission from abroad. The estimate therefore although not so minute as might be desired, may be in general considered as tolerably accurate, and fully adequate to the object. Nothing has been suggested as to any particular mode of construction, excepting that the ship will have two decks for batteries, the lowest of which is stated as consisting of twenty four pounders, although eighteen pounders may be deemed sufficiently large; four eight-inch howitzers are suggested with diffidence, although with an entire conviction of their powerfull effect with due management. The estimate for the brigantine is preparing, and will be submitted tomorrow. [Pierce Butler] War Department Nov. 17. 1791 Sir I have the honor to submit to you and the