[Docket endorsements: September 8^th 1798 — Daniel Gilbert with } Contract United States —} for fabricating two thousand Muskets —— Recorded in Contract Book B page 193—— [strikethrough: Stated 21^st Aug[ust] 1799 for [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] —— 125 2000 Comptroller's Office Recorded in Contract Book No. 3 page 87. —— Daniel Gilbert Contract 1798] Articles of Agreement made on the eighth Day of September [One] Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Eight, between Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, of the one part, and Daniel Gilbert of Mansfield —— in the State of Massachusetts —— of the other part. First. The said Daniel Gilbert —— contracts and engages to manufacture within the United States, and deliver to such person or persons as shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of War, for the time being Two Thousand —— stands of Arms, or Muskets, with Bayonets and Ramrods complete and fit for service—One third of the whole number to be delivered within eight months—One other third within fourteen months, and the remaining third with eighteen months from the date of these presents. Second. The said Arms shall be delivered at Boston Massachusetts or Providence —— in the State of Rhode Island —— and shall be made after the Charleville model. The Barrels shall be proved and the Muskets inspected agreeably to the rules now practised and required by the United States; the Locks shall be duly hardened; the Ramrods and Bayonets shall be properly tempered; and the Mountings, Stocks, and every other particular shall be finished in a workman-like manner, in all parts precisely, or as near as possible, conformably to two patterns, which have been marked, and sealed by the contracting parties to this Instrument; one of which patterns the party of the second part hereby acknowledges to have received. Third. The Barrels shall be proved, and the Muskets inspected at Mansfield aforesaid —— by a person or persons to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of War. When due notice shall have been received by the party of the first part, that Two Hundred —— Barrels are ready for the test; the proof shall commence, on like notice that a further number of Three Hundred —— Barrels are ready, the same shall also be proved; after which the United States shall not be required to prove less than Five Hundred —— Barrels at one time. The wages of the Inspector; the expence of powder and ball; and all other expences attending the proving and inspecting, shall be borne by the United States. Fourth. The Stocks of the Muskets shall be made of well seasoned black walnut timber, when the same can be procured by the Contractor, otherwise, of well seasoned, tough maple timber; or the United States shall cause to be delivered, at Philadelphia, to the party of the second part, if the same shall be required, —— Two Thousand —— well seasoned black walnut stocks in the rough, as they have been usually received into the public stores, at the rate of twenty-five cents each. Fifth. The party of the first part, contracts for and on behalf of the United States to pay or allow in settlement, Thirteen Dollars and Forty Cents, for each and every of the Stands of Arms which shall be manufactured according to the pattern, and delivered after proof and inspection as aforesaid. In witness whereof the said Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of United States, hath hereunto subscribed his hand and affixed the Seal of the Treasury; and the said Daniel Gilbert —— hath hereto set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written. [signature: Oliver Wolcott / Sec^y of the Treasy] [seal] Signed, Sealed and Delivered } in the Presence of } Jon. W. Jackson —— John Castle [paraph] Dan^l Gilbert [seal] Memorandum November 28^th 1798 Unavoidable circumstances of delay having prevented M^r Daniel Gilbert the Party of the second part to the foregoing Contract actually to have executed the same in the season intended and at the date first mentioned in the said Contracts vizt the eighth day of September 1798. — The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States Oliver Wolcott Esquire by his letter to J Jackson Supervisor dated November 19^th 1798 consents on his part that the said Contract shall be deemed to commence on the Nineteenth day of October last. —— Attest J Jackson, Supervisor [Copy]