Sir War Office March 14^th 1796 Your Opinion is requested on the letters from M^r Stodder and Cap^tn Truxton to you dated 29^th March whether white oak may be used for the fore and after live woods— in the Frigate building at Baltimore — by Cap^tn Tamptons letter they are already prepared of white oak; or to waite the arrival of Live oak deadwoods from Georgia by Command of the Sec^y of War M^r Joshua Humphreys Josiah Fox Naval Constructor Southwark.