[M^r Herbert] War Office September 30. 1796 Sir, I request you to have all the live Oak frames which were intended for the frigates to be built at Gosport and that are bolted together, separated and piled up in such a manner as to give room for the air to pass between them, and to be kept clear from the ground; the timbers that are not bolted to be piled up in the like manner; if the [undecipherable: probable reading "stem and stem"] or either of them are bolted they may remain as they are. you will have the whole well covered and secured from the sun and rain.