Instructions to the Persons appointed for building the Frigates. N^o 1 To the Agents. — War Department Sir You having accepted of the agency of the Ship of war to be built at        are to consider the rules herein specified as the general principles whereby to govern yourself in the execution of the agency. — 1^st You are to provide all the artificers and laborers of all descriptions excepting the Constructor or Master builder, necessary to build a ship of        guns the number to be such from time to time as will in able to operate with the greatest effect. The workmen to be provided upon the best terms by the day, week or month as you shall judge conducive to the public interest. 2^d You are also to purchase such materials for the construction and equipment of the said Ship as shall not otherwise be provided by special contracts under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury and to pay all other incidental or contingent Expenses. 3^d All the workmen and materials for building the said Ship are to be obtained by you upon the estimate or requisition in writing by the Constructor countersigned by the officer or Intendant. Their articles of labour or of store for the rigging a [undecipherable] of the Ship are to be obtained from the estimate of the principal artificers in each branch and also countersigned as the above. — 4^th The Clerk of the yard will receive, distribute and account for every article of public property. 5^th The tradespeople and all other laborers employed in working at the yard where the body of the Ship is to be [undecipherable: under]