[undecipherable] Sir War Office May 31^st 1797 you will be pleased to procure from Capt. Ross the Number of Stores, Muskets &c referred to and insert against the Measurements in the three last envelopes, which you have been since transmitted to this Office you will at once see the Necessity of Completing them, as it is very probable Congress may call for Statements of this Kind early in the Session I am Respectfully M^r John Scott Yours Clerk of the Navy Yard Josiah [undecipherable] Southwark...