[Public Record Office stamp at top] [Marginalia top left: Instance: FO 5/2 p. 136 — Columbia, Rob & Phila. to Sec War. 31 July 1793] No. [?] [?] [?] [?] 136 Sir In Compliance with the [signed?] contained in your letter of Yesterday we have carefully examined with the direction of the Ship James, Cap^d Read She has new wash boards with port holes and only the has pot holes in the stern which had not otherwise received, have some new Carriages with rollers mounted on them which 3. — were not mounted when the cannon in our day was very little in the timbers for the Tackles and Brushings. New frames for nettings which they are now putting up new rooms Ladles & [undecipherable] for the six pounders — She has now mounted fifteen foreign Guns and four [swivels?] with two more [swivels?] ready to mount — As to the Number of Men She made the only Officer we saw on board informed Us they have employed about fifty in her 6 Journeys since at Kingston James which is now lodged in the Collectors Office is mentioned as carrying twenty five men and mounting twelve Guns — We are &c Philadelphia 31 July 1793 go more of the [?] (Signed) D. Mapheson Survey [undecipherable] Nath. Falconer. Master Warden the Port of Philadelphia John Graff — J. Col^l. The Secretary of War The above is a true Copy from the original now on file in the War Office of the United States — (Signed) [undecipherable] Staff [?] — J. Col^l. 31 July 1793. [Bottom: Copied from PAPERS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT 1784-1800. For RESEARCH and INSTRUCTION use only.]