and transmit to this Office, that measures may be speedily taken agreeable to a late Act of Congress for selling that part which may be deemed Perishable You are desired to have them ranged in the following manner — 1^st The number of pieces of Timber under destinct heads, with the feet they contain. — (2^d The different kinds and quantities of other Materials ranged in the same manner — (3^d What Articles are of a perishable nature. — and 4^th Observations on the places where those Articles are Kept. War Office May 3^d 1796 [Mr Geo Claghorn Naval Constructor Boston] Inclosed is a draught of a Machine made use of by M^r Joshua Humphreys, for driving the large Copper bolts through the Deadwoods and Keel The great facility and certainty with which these bolts were drove has induced me to [strikethrough: send] transmit a Copy of the Machine to each of the Constructors for their guide — By reducing the driver and head to [strikethrough: the] the smaller bolts of 1 3/4 diameter may be drove with equal certainty and effect