July) to be transmitted to Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r in Philadelphia who is the Superintendant of the Military and Naval Stores of the United States. — I am Sir &c (The following was added to the Instructions of the Clerk of the yard at Baltimore) viz "You will be very particular in attending to the above instructions and such other instructions as the Captains may think proper to add, from time to time, for the good of the service or his convenience in superintending the same." [Tench Cox Esq^r] Sir War dep.^t Aug.^t 25 1794 I have the honor to transmit for your information, the Copy of a letter from Robert Cochran of Charleston So Carolina, to the Secretary of War, dated July 19^th 1794, and the enclosures offering for sale to the United States, the Ship Dauphin formerly the Frigate Delaware built in Philadelphia during the late war. I also enclose a copy of a letter dated the 21^st July last from M^r John Morgan who has been lately sent to the Southward to procure Ship timber — I am &c Signed — [undecipherable: probable reading Jn. Stagg] [Henry Jackson] Sir War dep.^t August 23^d 1794 I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21^st instant. — Enclosed you will receive the instructions for M^r [undecipherable] Jarvis from the Constructor of the Frigate to be built at Boston, and also the instructions for the Clerk of the yard, whose name you will please to insert. The draught of the Ships are not yet completed