expeditiously than they can be procured from Georgia: you are hereby requested to send to Philadelphia out of the live oak timber such as may answer to the enclosed statement. M^r Cheeseman the Constructor will no doubt be very particular in selecting such timber as may be found to answer for those timbers mentioned in the Table whether they have been worked or remain in a rough state, taking care to see they are in all respects sound and of sufficient size — The quantity being sufficient to load a small vessel of proper construction, such a one may be hired expressly for that purpose, and on the most reasonable terms — The work on this frigate having been suspended some time for want of these pieces of live oak timber, I am anxious to have them sent on immediately, that the work may be resumed with the greatest vigor W. O. May 14^th 1796 A Vessel having just arrived here from Georgia with a Cargo of live Oak, renders it necessary not to proceed according to my order of yesterday, untill the Contents of this Cargo is known — M^r Cheeseman may examine and make report to this Office what timbers are in the Navy Yard that will answer to M^r Humphreys statement and if any floor timb^r for the [undecipherable: Trumbull] can be found to send them by first opportunity only 1 having arrived in this Vessel — Floor wanted immediately, E^d F and Y — [M^r John Blagge Naval Agent New York]