[marginalia: only to Secretary of the Naval Department and which accompanied the Report] N^o 1. Report &c agreeable to a request of a Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, Appointed to inquire into the state of the Naval equipment; Viz:¹ In the first inquiry I am of Opinion that on the most minute calculation that I can possibly make, or procure from a general consultation of the different persons concerned in the building and equipment of the Frigates that their Actual Cost when Completed with Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, including Powder, &c &c (but without being provisioned or Manned) will be 120 dollars p^r ton. That the four 44 gun ships will tonnage, according to the new mode of measurement adopted by the Carpenters of this Port 6852 tons, and that the two Ships of 36 Guns will Measure 2666 tons — Consequently the Six Frigates will Measure 9518 tons which at the rate of 120 dollars a [undecipherable] will Cost $1142.160.— Direct appropriation made by [undecipherable] act of Congress for building the said Frigates &c — [undecipherable: probable reading $708,888]— inclusive of 10,000 dollars appropriated for patties &c &c Further provision necessary to compleat the Six Frigates for the [six] according to this Calculation Manning and provisions excepted Dollars 433.272 * N^o 2 In the accompanying paper N^o 2 is an account of [sums] disbursed, a prior to the different Agents and Purveyors of Supplies, including the Sum of $ remitted to our Minister in England for the purpose of purchasing Copper, and Sundry other Materials and will be accounted for by them respectively A Statement of the Quantity of Materials most essential for Building the Frigates for the service of the United States — The Quantity of each Article actually delivered into the Navy Yards and what is yet deficient N^o 3 and 4. [Table with column headers across pages, including: Number of pieces of Oak plank in the Frames; Number of Oak [undecipherable] for frames; Number of pieces [Knees?] for frames; Number of pieces of [General?] Beams; Number of [undecipherable] Beams; Number of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Beams; Number of [undecipherable] each [undecipherable]; Pieces of [undecipherable] White [undecipherable]; and additional columns continuing on the following page including measurements of feet of Staves, Logs, Plank, Blocks, and Pounds of Copper for Bottom, among others] Quantity of Materials required for each Frigate of 44 Guns: 724 528 150 81 34 33 35 79 30 74 65 34 47 20 [columns continue] Frigate of 44 Guns building Materials actually delivered into the Navy Yard 554 94 15 12 ... 28 23 14 37 11 17 Materials yet wanting to compleat the requisitions 170 134 135 69 34 33 33 8 7 60 28 30 20 Frigate of 44 Guns building Materials actually delivered into the Navy Yard 149 8 [undecipherable: probable reading 7419 feet of white Oak timber for various purposes not specified] 2 2 ... 7 30.970 [Oak plank] Materials yet wanting to compleat the requisitions 535 520 150 81 34 33 [undecipherable] 28 69 65 84 and [undecipherable] Frigate of 44 Guns building Materials actually delivered into the Navy Yard 333 [among which...] 26 [14935 &c] of white Oak plank [various purposes, not specified] [undecipherable] Materials yet wanting to compleat the requisitions [undecipherable] 150 81 34 33 33 79 4 [undecipherable] Frigate of 44 Guns building Materials actually delivered into the Navy Yard 433 33 ... 24 35 34 48032 [feet of white Oak timber for various purposes, some part of which as to [undecipherable] plank] 1 Materials yet wanting to compleat the requisitions 289 193 150 37 [Ceilings and Ledges &c] 16 Quantity of Materials required for a Frigate of 36 Guns 702 506 148 71 31 29 34 25 Frigate of 36 Guns Materials actually delivered into the Navy Yard 349 [various — among which are included] 13 13 ... Materials yet wanting to compleat the requisitions 333 477 148 75 [the Beams and Bolts for the Bolts &c] 61 62 78 37 20 Frigate of 36 Guns Materials actually delivered into the Navy Yard 133 [among...] 330 [pieces of white Oak for various purposes, among which] 26 17 ... 30 Materials yet wanting to compleat the requisitions [undecipherable] 148 31 [in Beams & Bolts for the Bolts &c] 8 57 65 61 47 20 [marginalia: & for the Statement building] N^o 3 will show the Materials on hand and N^o 4 such as still wanting, in the Yards and Stores; many of which are [purchased] and will Speedily [arrive?] — N^o 3 is an Estimate of the further Sum, supposed to be [necessary] to compleatly equip one 44 and one 36 Gun Frigate, if the [others] should be discontinued — From the present Arrangements that are in use, and apparent prospect, it is expected that the Six Frigates may be built, launched, and Compleatly equip'd, in the course of the present year, and that one 44 and one 36 may be Completed with great care, by the Month of November next at farthest — The aforegoing is at the request of the Secretary of War made out and submitted for his inspection and revision by his very humble Servants Josiah Francis Purveyor (Signed by Thomas [undecipherable] Joshua Humphreys Navy Const[ructor] Josiah Fox Navy Const[ructor]— Philadelphia 13^th January 1796 — 4. N^o 5 One Frigate of 44 Guns, being 1713 tons, and one of [36?] Guns, 1333 tons measuring 3046 tons, at 120 dollars p^r ton, will Cost exclusive of provisions and Men as aforesaid $ 365.320 — what proportion of this sum is already appropriated, and Contracts now in for, cannot immediately be well ascertained; as many of the Materials have been purchased in common with those for the other Frigates in Europe; Accounts of which have not yet been received, and the sums differently arising with respect to the two [undecipherable], Oak being engaged for the Ships generally, but it appears that the [Ballance] of Monies already appropriated for the Naval equipment will be sufficient to compleat the two Ships above mentioned; Should the other four be suspended, but if the Six Frigates as stated in the Measures contemplated, the further sum of $433.272 as Stated in N^o 1 will be necessary [to bring the whole business into full] effect The following were added to the Statements N^o 3 and 4 — [marginalia: Navy Yard Philadelphia] There is exclusive of the 1329 [lb?] of Copper delivered into the Navy Yard, 37,870 [lb?] of Copper in the public Stores which is thought sufficient to Compleat the Ships — Most of the other Materials not delivered into the Yard are procured and are daily Arriving — [marginalia: Navy Yard New York] There is a large quantity of white Oak plank that has been Raised in the yard exclusive of the 30940 feet of the present Quantity of which no returns have been made the timber from which it was sawed, having been already Accounted for under white Oak timber — [marginalia: Navy Yard Boston] The Beams are all cut and many of them delivered. The Remainder are expected to be delivered on or about [the] time — A Vessel laden with live Oak timber loaded [at] Baltimore having met with unfavourable weather was [under] the Necessity of going to Boston, and the Cargo was landed there for the Use of the Frigate. [marginalia: Navy Yard Norfolk] Nearly the whole of the white Oak plank is cut, and is expected [to arrive] at the Yard as soon as the Weather will admit transporting it with safety down James River to Norfolk. [marginalia: Navy Yard Baltimore] A large quantity of plank is [sawed] in the Yard: but of the precise quantity no returns have been made — The Beams are cut and [set] and [are] put into Stonewater to season — the remainder of the Copper necessary for securing and sheathing the Vessel is in the public Stores — [marginalia: Navy Yard Portsmouth N.H.] A considerable quantity of Plank has been sawed in the Yard — the particular quantity has not been transmitted by the Clerk — The remainder of the Copper is lodged in the Public Stores —