that Lieut Shiphelt can make. I have to request that you will advance to him Seven hundred Dollars for the purpose above mentioned, taking duplicate Receipts. By tomorrow Post, I will reimburse to you that Sum. Cap^t Truxton wrote on the 10^th Instant, that he Should go down the Bay, and be ready to put to Sea by next Sunday or Monday, and I am extremely unwilling that the Frigate Should be delayed for want of this Small Sum, or that She Should go to Sea without an officer to command her marines. I am with great respect &c J Pickering [M^r James Bulehan] War Deff^t Jun 10 1798 Sir You are hereby appointed Clerk of the Navy-Yard at Philadelphia; your pay to commence from the 28^th Instant, at the rate of five hundred Dollars per annum. For that Compensation it is expected that you perform the duty of a Clerk to that Yard, agreeably to the Instructions which are now enclosed, and also such orders as may be from time to time given you by the Secretary of War for your Direction.