[Illegible Text: Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] War Office July 9^th 1796 [for] ( At the request of [undecipherable] [undecipherable], Esq^r. [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have [undecipherable] the liberty of writing the fol[lowing] [undecipherable] relative to the Rigging, [undecipherable] may [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] the [undecipherable], as may [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] as a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Rigging [undecipherable] required are as follows. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Cables of 120 fathoms each [undecipherable] 40 [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] 1 [do?] [undecipherable] . . . . . . 12½ [do?] 1 [do?] [do?] . . . . . . 9 [do?] 2 [do?] [do?] . . . . . . 6½ [do?] [undecipherable] [Gang?] of [Fore?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] . . . . 9¾ [do?] [Mizen?] & [undecipherable] [Straps?] . . . . 17 [do?] [undecipherable] [Shrouds?] [Straps?] . . . . 18 [do?] [Marine?] [Shrouds?] . . . . . 7½ [do?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] . . . . . 9[undecipherable] (2^d) [Spunyarn?] [undecipherable] . . . . 7[undecipherable] [Seizing?] [Stuff?] . . . . 1 3 [Buoy?] [Ropes?] . . . . 9[undecipherable] 2 [do?] [do?] . . . . 6[undecipherable] And the [Manning?] and [Running?]; Rigging of different sizes Including [Spare?] Rigging about [undecipherable] [undecipherable], with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Breeching before the [Guns?]. 1^st The price [you?] [undecipherable] will furnish the Rigging to be made of the best [Hemp?] [undecipherable] or [Bundles?] not to be [large?] 2^nd What they will ask for [Manning?], [Serving?] and [Laying?] of the [Hemp?] [undecipherable] should be provided by the [Public?], 3^rd The price of the best hemp at Boston, the quantity for sale and when Fresh Hemp may be expected to arrive. and am Sir with respects your Obd. Serv. Josiah Fox Gen^l Henry Jackson ( Naval Agent Boston