[left margin: Cap^t Richardson Boston] S^r H C^o July 12. 1797 I beg leave to inform you that agreeably to your request of May the 22^d I applied to the Secretary of War for an Extra Boat for your Ship, which he informs me cannot be granted without the like indulgence to each of the other Captains, he is therefore decidedly against it — I am &c Josiah Fox Manifest of Sundries Shipped by Samuel and Joseph Sterets Naval Agents for Baltimore, on board the Sloop Mount Vernon William Stakes Master bound for Baltimore for the Men of the Frigate Constellation. Fifty Six Spares and Spars one Box Containing Two Copper patent pumps Two Wood pumps with Brass chambers Two pipes and one Wolfton ware One Trunk of Charts &c Two Boxes of Compasses Four Hundred Kegs of Kentledge Two Thousand Hand granados Fifty seven Kegs of Lead — Fifty pieces of Sail duck. Eleven Hundred and Thirty seven, Twenty Four pound Shot — Spain of Suncker pieces. [bracket notation:] Belong — Ten pieces of [undecipherable] Fourteen d^o Spain of Bottom fenders Spain of life d^o Spain of [undecipherable] d^o Fifty Six pieces of Jonside [undecipherable] For Galleries —