[ 11 ] No. V. ONE frigate of 44 guns, being 1713 tons, and one of 36 guns, 1333 tons, making 3046 tons, at 120 dollars per ton, will coſt, excluſive of proviſions and men, as aforeſaid, dols. 365,520.—What proportion of this ſum is already expended and contracts made 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 as yet been received, and the ſame difficulty ariſes with reſpect to the live oak being engaged for the ſhips generally; but it is judged that the balance of monies already appropriated for the naval equipment, will be ſufficient to complete the two ſhips above mentioned, ſhould the other four be ſuſpended; but if the ſix frigates are carried on in the manner contemplated, the farther ſum of dols. 453,272, as ſtated in No. 1, will be neceſſary to carry the whole buſineſs into full effect. War Office, *January* 20, 1796. TIMOTHY PICKERING. D