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You are hereby required and directed to take your Carpenters with you and forthwith repair on board the Washington Brig and having carefully Examined into the Condition of her Hull, Masts, Yards and Stores, report to me under your hands the exact State the whole is now in, And as there is the greatest necessity for her proceeding to Sea immediately as an Armed Vessel, You are to report if she is fit to go in her present Condition or what repairs and Stores she absolutely requires for that purpose.
Given under by hand on board His Majesty's Ship Preston
at Boston the 8th of Decembeer 1775.
To Captains Symons, Robinson and Linzee
of His Majesty's Ships Cerberus, Preston and Falcon
By Command of the Admiral G. Gefferina