West Point March 5 1784 Sir I had the honor to receive, this morning your Letter to me of the 26^th of February with the enclosed paper from General Hagen — I shall not be able to give yet into your hands my answer to it until my arrival at Philadelphia which shall be at the commencement of this month, if nothing on my part can [strikethrough: prevent their being &c —] I have taken such measures as well serves the offices for the subsistance of the Officers [strikethrough: here as far up] as next may, but the contract [strikethrough: then receiving, at that time] [strikethrough: would to] is in your pleasure that I need on Notes [strikethrough: in such manner] [strikethrough: from time to time] as will bring in to me the monthly subsistance as fast as it shall become due [strikethrough: after that —] The Register of the Treasury was sent on from two charges to be cloigned from [strikethrough: by] the settlement I am now making with the [undecipherable] the first is against General [undecipherable] for a [undecipherable]