Notes for Circular Letter from the War Office to Naval Agents, Superintendents, Constructors, Clerks of Ship Yard appointed for building of frigates: Page #3 Original title: 1letterbook/ZXA06_54.jpg Cancel Reset Transcription 54 Your contsant attendance will be necessary for the pur[line break]pose of observing that all parts of the business harmonize and are conformed to the public interests. -- The Frigates will be built and equipped under the fol=lowing regulations.-- The Treasury of the United States will make special contracts for the principal materials which will be used in the construction and equipment of the Ship. -- The Agent [blank space], will provide all the materials not otherwise provided by the Treasury. He will also, excepting the Constructor, procure andpay [sic] all the workmen and labourers of all costs necessary for the building and equipping the Ship. -- The numbers and qualities of workmen and labourers are to be furnished by the agent in pursuance of requisitions in writing by the Constructor for the [undecipherable] or master mechanic in each branch of equipment, be in both cases to be countersigned by the Superintendant[sic]. The materials for the equipment not provided by the Treasury are to be obtained by the Agent in pur[line break]suance of the estimate ofthe[sic] master mechanic in each branch countersigned by the Superintendants[sic]. -- The Constructor will have the immediate di=rection of all the workmen employed upon the hull of the Ship. The rolls of the workmen and of the-Labourers must be called every day at the commencement and termination of their labour and after returning from dinner. This must be donei n the presence of the Constru[cut off at page edge] Notes are a workspace where project participants can keep ideas and observations regarding the transcription of the page. When contributing to the notes, it is encouraged to include the user and timestamp.