[221] [In left margin: Incd. Penrose Esq^r Petition —] Sir W O July 23. 1797 I request you will be pleased to deliver to M^ss. Hollis the Contractor for furnishing the Iron work for the Algerine Frigate: Six Tons of Iron from the Public Stores, at one Hundred and Twenty Dollars P Ton, being the price agreeably to Contract — --- [In left margin: M^r Th^o Thompson] Sir War Office February 23. 1797 I received your letter of the 14 Instant. you will be pleased to inform M^r Hackett that the freight of the Ironwork must be charged to his acct. agreeably to my letter to you of the 27 of January Concerning the Invoices the Ironwork will cost him, and their being delivered to his Stores free of trouble and risk, will no doubt set aside his objections to paying the Freight. --- [In left margin: Capt. Sam. Nicholson Boston —] [In left margin: Letter the same Substance was sent to Captain T. Truxton at Baltimore at the same time] Sir War Office March 7. 1797 I has the pleasure to transmit you, enclosed, your commission as Captain and Commander of the Frigate Constitution, in the service of the United States — Your letter of the 27 Ultimo informing me of the destruction of a part of the public Hemp by fire, has been rec'd —