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Sir/  I yesterday received your Letter, respecting the Floating Battery Boats, and shall be obliged to you, for the Several Articles, you promise to provide them; I have Ordered what may be otherwise necessary, to fit them for Service.

I am to acquaint you that the Commissary will clear the Gunner of the Preston, if he will procure him receipts from the Persons he delivered the Stores to; which is always Customary on those occasions, and without which the Commissary will be left in the same dilemma the Gunner Complains of; if those receipts are in future taken there will be no difficulty.

I am with Regard and Esteem. Sir &ca.