The Effort to Establish a Foundry
Document 1798Wolcott refers to the thousand dollar advance to Lane & Salter [?] to establish a foundry. The want of models for cannon have delayed the effort to negobtiate a contract.
September 8, 1798 [inserted note: vol. 35 no. 11] 11 the Secretary of War & the Secretary of the Navy Recorded The The Secy of the Treasury presents his respects to the Secretaries of the Departments of War & the Navy & requests their attention to the Letter of Lane & Salter of the 3rd instant herewith enclosed – Messrs Lane & Salter have recd. Dolls. 1000 in advance to enable them to undecipherable establish a Foundary – The want of models & an [undecipherable] for Cannon have hitherto delayed a formal Contract – Further delay may be [undecipherable] & injurious. F. D. Sept 6. 1798
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