176 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
Lieut. Col. Myers, Acting Q.M.G., to Talbot. 
Fort George Jany. 2nd 1813. 
Sir 
It having been determined to build for His Majesty’s service on 
Lake Erie, a Vessel of War to carry Eighteen Guns as also several 
Gun Boats, and understanding that in Your Vicinity, there may be 
procured some Artificers, who could be successfully employed upon those 
Works, I have to request you will be pleased to exert your influence, 
to obtain as considerable a portion as in your power of the description 
in the Margin,’ in order that they may be forwarded to Amherstburgh. 
You will please to cause it to be explained to such persons as are will- 
ing to be thus employed, that they will receive the same pay, &c. as 
was given to the several classes of those who were employed in building 
the Lady Prevost, or at the rates given to those now employed in similar 
Works, at York and Kingston, on this Subject I have written for 
Information and when received I will forward it to the Dy. Asst. Qr. 
Mr. General at Amherstburgh, for his guidance, the Artificers must 
carry with them as far as possible tools. 
As it is essential that the utmost dispatch should be used, in for- 
warding such Artificers as can be procured to Amherstburgh, and as 
they will proceed on the King’s Service, it will be requisite that the 
Magistrates should give the Necessary authority for the impressment of © 
Sleighs, for their Conveyance, and it would, be very material in for- 
warding this measure, if an intelligent Militia Officer can be directed 
to take a general.charge of the Artificers on their way up, for the pur- 
pose of assisting in procuring the necessary Carriages for them, and 
defraying the expense, for this purpose he will be furnished with a 
sum of money adequate to the probable amount, and for which he 
would finally account with the Assistant Commissary at Amherstburgh 
cn his Arrival, to whom Instructions on the Subject will be transmitted. 
I have the honor to be 
Sir 
Your Most Humbl Svt. 
Curisto Myers Lt. Col. à 
Acting Qr. Mr. Genl. 
Colonel Talbot 
&e. &e. &e. 
Port Talbot. 

*The marginal specification is: Ship Carpenters, Boat builders, Joiners, 
Blacksmiths. | 

