[illustration of eagle with shield] I Edward Blaney [undecipherable] to serve one YEARS in the Marine [undecipherable] of the United States, unless sooner discha[rged,] upon the terms mentioned in the Act passed the [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] 1797 entitled, [undecipherable] Naval Armament[,] and at the pay [undecipherable] dollars [per] M[onth,] and that I have had read to me the rules and articles of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] against mutiny and desertion, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Justice WITNESS MY HAND, this [undecipherable] Blaney day of May [undecipherable] In the presence of [undecipherable] I Edward Blan[ey] [undecipherable] UNITED STATES [undecipherable] AMERICA, and to serve them honestly and faithfully [undecipherable] their enemies or opposers whomsoever; and to obse[rve] [undecipherable] the orders of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AM[ERICA,] and the orders of the officers appointed over me, accordi[ng to] the rules and articles of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [N]avy [Philad]^a County [undecipherable] SWORN before me, this third day of May 1798 [undecipherable] John Grover [Edward Blaney / 1^st May 1798]