[290] Capt Thomas Cole Sir Superintend^t of Navy Yard. Baltimore War Department 2 June 1798. You will be pleased to deliver to the Order of Oliver Wolcott Esquire Secretary of the Treasury such parts of the materials &c which are deposited in the Navy Yard at Baltimore as may be by him required for the equipment of the Ship Adrianna. — You will be careful to keep a particular account of all articles you may deliver in conformity to this order, and take duplicate receipts for the same one of which you are requested to transmit to this Office with the account when that Ship shall be compleated — I am & M^r Arthur Humphreys Sir. This Office 9^th March '98 Your Letter of the 29^th has been received — you will be pleased to take order to have the defects on board the Frigate United States put into compleat repair, in as short a time and with as little expence as possible I am Sir yours —