Memorandums The Canvas should be sent to Portsmouth, or the most part in least Blocks, masts, pumps, Tops yards should be engages for good Oakum should be immediately got Junk to makitt, Clear and Merchantable the Boards & Plank, should be procured for the sides made of Cedar and Locths, plained off in the woods and bro't out to seasons, Stuff for Gun Carriages, must be got out to season Iron Sheets to be procured and a Large Quantity put into a Smiths hands to draw the Bolts this winter, and have the work ready in the Spring when the Ship will go on fast and require the Smith work to be received in great quantities if not ready may impede the Carpenters and prevent the Ship being Compleated According to Contract Cordage Should not be postponed by the first of April to have the rigging all [undecipherable] and gear done The Water Casks Castle should be agreed for and all the Copper Store. 1 12 [undecipherable] intended for the larger Frigates ought to be annexed to this Ship the riging must be timely furnished all the ground Tier Casks and every other thing should be forwarded in the tender and all Contracts should be made in the Winter when people are unemployed, and will undertake their offers and moderate terms It ought now to be ascertained what Materials can be furnished from the public Store by the United States and how far they are to depend on purchasers. If the Ship is to be delivered or Sent to Sea in to or 14 Months an is generally understood not a Moment can be lost in Building, her and procuring Materials if they are not in public Stores. It takes a long time to [undecipherable] a stand of Mast in these Country and [undecipherable] into all the details for to be [undecipherable: equally] moved. I have experienced it in these my [undecipherable] Steps from first Laying the Keel to their Building It ought [undecipherable: Clearly] to be understood how the Ship is to be Craft any Equipped, whether their way express [strikethrough: under a way] [strikethrough: Means] Means to give into an of she was only designed for the force of the United States, or whether any thing Should be Contracted quantity of Sails, Anchors and Cables and non essential things to be delivered in the [undecipherable] Water Casks and Iron Ballast [undecipherable] of masts and Yards [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] out and [undecipherable] forwarded to enable the said [undecipherable] the shipping by as also to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [BB004]