[Cap^t Richardson Boston] S^r W 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 directly against it — I am &^c Joseph Fox Manifest of Sundries Shipped by Samuel and Joseph Steretts Naval Agents for Baltimore, on board the Ship Mount Vernon, William Stokes 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 Box of Tin ware One Trunk of Charts &c Two Boxes of Compasses Four Hundred Pegs of Hoisting Two Hundred Hand granaders Fifty seven pegs of Lead Fifty pieces of Sail duck Eleven Hundred and Thirty seven, Twenty Four pound Shot — apairs of Sundry pieces Belongs { Ten pieces of [undecipherable] Fourteen [undecipherable] apairs of Bottom [undecipherable] apairs of [undecipherable] apairs of [undecipherable] for Galleries —{ Fifty th: pieces of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]