The brickhouse of the new rope house and tarring house, are so bad that some bricks and mortar may be easily brushed down and I fear that they will fall down in a little time. The wet dock is in a tottering condition, some of the walls having been shored up for 15 months past and our dry dock has become a wet dock. I complained of some of these defects to Commissioner Dummer but he told me it was none of my business. The Navy Board gave less credit to what I said as they had receive a certificate from the builder and the Clerk of the Survey that all had been performed well.