DUMARESQ, Receiver General to Ais Excellency, December 13, 1864

Mr. Dumaresq to Governor Rawson

Sir: I have the honor to report for your lordship’s information that this morning, immediately on the landing of the cargo ex. Mary, late Alexandra, I directed all the packages to be opened in my presence, and found the marks, numbers, and contents of each to be as follows:

P. H. One cask containing scrubbing brushes, tin cans, &c.

J. R. ½. Two cases containing iron hammock racks.

J. R. 3. One case containing iron hammock racks and handles for screws of side lights.

O. C. 1. One case containing a gun and carriage, with appurtenances complete, designed by Messrs. Fawcett, Preston & Co., of Liverpool, with flat iron tray or slide for the gear and body of carriage to traverse on.(This gun is the subject of a former report.)

O. C. 2. One case containing shell.

O. C. 3. One case of grape-shot.

J. R. H. 3. One case containing six trap wheels, about six inches in diameter, apparently handles such as are used for working the screw of a gun.

J. R. H. ½. Two cases of stationery.

H. H. 2. One case containing confederate flags, brig, ship, and boat ensigns and pendants, log lines, bolts of canvas, &c.

S. D. H. 2. One case of drugs, lint, &o.

J. R. H. One case (partially examined) of private effects, consisting of military and naval books in relation to the confederate service, having the name of Hamilton on the fly leaves, forty-eight packages of tourniquets, one blank confederate commission, charts, a case of surgical instruments, &c, one bundle of hammocks—about sixty; also two small iron carronades and carriages, belonging to ship.

With reference to the cases marked J. R. 1 to 3, I have respectfully to state that the hammock racks are all of a size, and that I have had one of them placed in the staples on the bulwarks of the Mary, which it exactly fits.

It is my duty further to add, that since the date of my last report of the 7th instant, four new berths have been completed in the after hold, where the gun and carriage above referred to were found, and sixteen additional ones in the forecastle, so that, independent of the after-deck berths for the officers of the ship, she has now thirty-two berths for seamen, besides the sixty hammocks.

I have, &c., &c.,