Office of the Historian

Mr. McCulloch, collector, to Mr. Dowry, surveyor.

Custom-House, Baltimore,
Collector’s Office, August 25, 1819.

Sir: It is alleged that Captain Daniels has not only repaired: the brig: Negreda, a Spanish prize, in which he arrived, but has altered her masts, decks, and rigging, as well as her armament, that *her platform is renewed and fixed, that her mainmast, formerly schooner-rigged, [Page 498] is now square rigged, her guns formerly on slides are now on carriages, sixteen in number, and that some brass pieces are added to her after-deck or bulwarks, which she had not before. [129]

Please to order two officers, one of them the officer who inspected her at arrival, to visit and strictly examine her and report to me on these and other particulars in her case.

  • J. H. McCULLOCH.
  • Mr. Lowry,
    Surveyor Port of Baltimore.