He will also when an equivalent [is] before [giving?] other articles for the rations of any [man?] if required grant the [Usual?] Regulations of this nature to be Signed by the Captain who is to Certify that the equivalent is agreeable to the parties Som &c War Office January 9^th 1798 [Jared [undecipherable: Shurfe?] Esquire] Sir I have received your letter of the 25 Ult^o. If no other opportunity Should offer of Sending this Anchor to the Constitution but through the Medium of Norfolk, I beg you will be pleased to Send it by the first Vessel to the address of William Pennock Esquire Naval Agent at that place. Som &c Sir War Office 9^th of January 1798 [Capt John [undecipherable]] You will be pleased to have Jonathon Shellback borne upon the Ships books as a Seaman until further orders for provisions only. Som &c Sir War Office January 15^th 1798 [Capt S. Nicholson] I have received your letter of the first. That part of your letter relating to the Seamen and Shewing it by no means as Satisfactory as I Should wish. The President having taken into his consideration the pay of the petty officers Seamen, ordinary Seamen and Marines Considers him to be [undecipherable] at the two last [undecipherable], it becomes necessary that the best information Should be obtained from those [undecipherable], about the [undecipherable] will be determined, and as Seamen away except [undecipherable]