[222] [Jacob Sheafe Esq^r Petition —] Sir W O July 23. 1797 I request you will be pleased to deliver to M^r Sheafe, 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 agreeable to Contract — --- [f^t the Thompson] Sir War Office February 23^d 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 debit agreeably to my letter to you of the 2^d of January Considering the lowness 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 --- [Capt Sam^l Nicholson Boston —] [Letter the same Substance was sent to Captain T. Truxton at Baltimore at the same time] Sir War Office March 7. 1797 I have 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 —