[The Secretary of the Treasury] W O: May 30^th 1797 Sir, I herewith enclose you Copies of letters f[undecipherable: from] Mr James Haskell and Capt Thomas Thompson dated May [undecipherable] 22. by which it would appear, that altho the third payment d[undecipherable: does] not become due yet it would be for the Interest of the United States that Mr Haskell should have his third payment ma[undecipherable: made] him — I have therefore to request that you will be pleased to take order to cause a third payment to [undecipherable: be made] him as soon as possible — [Mr Jones, Treasury — for the Statement, see page 237] W O May 30^th 1797 Sir You will find enclosed an Account of all the Lumber &c which have been received to Mr James Haskell, by order from the Department of War together with the Amount of the Value of the same I am Sir respectfully your Ob^t Serv^t [signed] James McHenry [?] [Mr John Scott, Clerk of the Navy Yard, Southwark] W O: May 31^st 1797 Sir You will be pleased to procure from Capt Ch[undecipherable] the Number of [undecipherable] Billhooks &c which he will insert against the measurements in the Price lists enclosed [which] you some time 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 [undecipherable: Session] I am respectfully yours [signed] Josiah Fox [?]