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Treasury Department
April 19th 1799

Sir

Enclosed I transmit to you a letter from the Secretary of War accompanied with an order on Mr Jno Harris keeper of Military Stores for an hundred weight of ball, four quarter-casks of Powder and a proof-stamp.

These articles I will thank you to receive and cause to be forwarded to Mr Thomas Annely at Harper's Ferry, to be used by him in proving the barrels of musquets fabricating in the State of Maryland for the United States.

I am respectfully Sir Your Mo Obt Servant Olivr Wolcott

Jno Wilkins Jr Esqr Quarter Master General.

(copy of letter recd from the treasury department 'undecipherable' to Jas [Miller?] in the absence of John Wilkins Jr Qr M Genl