[Page 226] proceed with regularity and dispatch where such orders are not fully complied with. I therefore think it my duty to enforce a speedy compliance on your part to every Clause of your Instructions, and hope, the Statement alluded to may be immediately made out and transmitted to this Office. Sir W.O. April 1⁷ 1797 [Secretary of the Treasury —] As a Vessel is wanted to Transport the Spars, Kentledge and some other Articles to Baltimore, for the Frigate Building there, I have to request, that you will give orders to have one chartered for the purpose — Sir W.O. April 17 1797 [Mr. David Stodder] I am surprized to find that there is no probability of your launching the Frigate Constellation before the first of July next. By the Report of Captain Truxton some time since, I entertained a Hope she would have been nearly completed this Month. It therefore becomes my duty to request you will exert yourself to the Utmost, to get the Ship compleated with possible expedition; and it is necessary at same time to be as frugal as possible in every part of the Business — Sir W.O. April 18. 1797 [Mr. Caleb Gibbs] When I wrote you on the 10. of February last, I requested you to transmit to this Office without delay "a particular Statement of all Articles received into the Navy Yard and put afloat under your care since your appointment as Clerk