ii APPENDIX, 
edged. I had no further conversation with him on the subject, and, — 
should not have recurred to it again, but for his communication to 
ra I send you the certiiceibe of Captains Dickerson of the ship 2 ol 
and SS of the ship — tan, and the first and second o se: of the rge 
— » which, I Ass esume,- will be sufficient to satisfy you of the correct- 
not” ay: absence from New York, eiving left the very 
ap of the date of Captain Marshall’s communication to you,) has prevented 
e from noticing it before this. 
Yours ee, 
ARD B. Rawson. 
CERTIFICATES. 
NO I. 
I hereby certify, that I have examined a plate in the orate Journal 
January, 1828, purporting to be the Pegs of a plan of a temporary Ru 
teat to the ship Britannia, and that it is a fac simile of a Rudder ages by 
aptain Edward B. Rawson, first fitted to the ship George Clinton, on a pas- 
ae from Liverpool, in September, 1826, more than twelve pantie before the 
Britannia lost her rudder, and some months before the = ue a was built. 
ae 
oO 
a) 
NDER 
; cine first officer of 
George Clinton, at od time the 
September 20, 1828. udder was first  peemnins 
NO. If. 
hereby a that on ves — of the Britannia in New York, in No- 
‘vember, 1827, amine porary Rudder, then fitted to ties and 
it "the same e eve ie spect, with a te r invented by 
Captai = ‘i ~ te tted to ship ones Clinton, in September, 1826, 
in Long. 45, Lat. 42 3 and f also esi that [ assisted in hanging the last 
JameEs B. CoRNWELL, 
d 
ond officer, 
New York, Oct. 2d, 1828. Ship George Clinton. 
NO. Ill. 
Carrain Rawson. 
c 
the two Rudders, as I examined them both, w n they were fitted to both 
‘ships Yours Bat respect ully, 
ges a. Drcx1 ha 
eee 3d, 1828. aster of Ship Rom 
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