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take to superintend and direct its being properly fixed and fitted on board 

 the Niagara. 



I am further instructed to request that you will take charge of the opera- 

 tion of experimenting upon and subsequently paying out of the cable from 

 the ship, in doing which you will have the cooperation of Messrs. Wood- 

 house, Follausbee, and of such Assistant Engineers as you may consider it 

 requisite to appropriate to such service. 



You are also authorized to make such preparations and arrangements as 

 are necessary to enable you to carry out the foregoing iustructions. 

 I remain youi's truly, 



GEO. S AWARD, Secretary. 

 Wm. E. Everett, Esq., etc., etc. 



That the paying out instrument constructed from the drawings of Mr. 

 Everett and made under his immediate direction were fitted on board of the 

 steam frigates Niagara and Agamemnon, from which vessels and with 

 these instruments the Atlantic Telegraph Cable wbs successfully laid. 



Reviewing, then, the elements submitted, we have arrived at the follow- 

 ing conclusions : 



1st. That the apparatus used in the first attempt to lay the Atlantic 

 Telegraph Cable, composed of the paying out instrument of four geared 

 sheaves, and the brake used, failed, and that the use of them was wholly 

 abandoned in the second attempt. 



2d. That although Appold's brake was attached to the apparatus used in 

 the second essay and made an integral and essential portion of it, yet it 

 was very materially modified before it could be adapted to the peculiar pur- 

 pose for which it was resorted to. 



3d. That the paying out instrument by which this cable was laid, had 

 but two sheaves, running independent of each other, and that in this essen- 

 tial feature it was wholly novel. 



4th. That this instrument and the modification of Appold's brake was 

 constructed from the designs of and under the direction of Chief Engineer 

 Wm. E. Everett, U. S. N. 



5th. That the entire apparatus was constructed by the authority of the 

 Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and that its design and 

 construction was confided to Mr. Everett alone. 



Finally, that if the apparatus had proved inadequate to the required 

 purpose, that Mr. Everett could alone have been held professionally 

 responsible, as the paying out instrument of his design was essentially 

 difi'erent from that recommended by the commission of engineers. 



In conclusion, your committee have to add, that although without pro- 

 per paying out machinery in the vessels of transportation, it would not 

 have been pracHcable to lay the cable, yet that the mere possession of 

 such machinery did not constitute all that was requisite to attain this end, 

 as the proper stowage of the cable and the manner of its delivery to the 

 paying out machine was equally necessary to success. 



The important duty of superintending both the stowing and the delirery 



