[War Office June 9^th 1797 Cannon Searcher Completer, & Port fires to be Deliv^d M^r De Costa.] War. Office, June 9^th 1797 Sir. Please to deliver M^r DaCosta, for proving Cannon casting at Cecil furnace in Maryland, for the United States, a Cannon Searcher and its Reliever — and Twenty Sticks — Port Fire. —— James M^cHenry Samuel [undecipherable: Hodgdon] M^r John Harris.