who has agreed to reduce the large copper bolts to a proper size at three pence currency a pound. If the smiths here will not or cannot work at so low a rate, we must get M'King to come up here for the purpose of receiving the bolts, after you shall have forwarded and he shall have drawn & what will be necessary for some time at Baltimore. Mr Humphreys can best advise you what quantity to forward in addition to what you have already sent— [Insol Francis Esq.] Sir. W.C. April 28. 1795. A letter of the 18^th from Captain Trustum informs that the copper bolts had thus arrived at Baltimore. Inclosed is a Copy of M^r Nodders letter to Cap^t Trustum stating the pieces of live Oak wanting for that frigate before the can be raised— [Cap^t Sam: Nicholson] Sir. W.C. April 30^th 1795. I have received your letter of the 23^rd. Your hay will be forwarded. The book of regulations for the British Navy is not in this office: when the time approaches for manning our frigates I shall be glad to receive that in your possession if I do not meet with one nearer at hand. [Josiah Fox] Sir W.C. May 12. 1795. Your skill & services in preparing the draughts & models of the frigates now building in the U.S. & the intended further application of your skills in assisting in the construction of the frigate to be built at Norfolk as soon as draughts could be completed, induced me to agree that from the first of April last, your pay should be at the rate of 750 dollars a year, for which for your satisfaction I give this certificate. For that compen-sation