[undecipherable] Hints for consideration of the Committee, — Wednesday July 24 [17]9[undecipherable] — The Power vested in the Secretary of War — General [undecipherable] Appoints — [undecipherable] appointed — [undecipherable] 1100 dollars — Continued under the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Congress per Resolution of the [undecipherable] November [17]83 — with powers to continue so many Vigilants as the service [undecipherable] — does not this resolution remain in full force now may require — Appointed to the field [undecipherable] Department [undecipherable] [undecipherable] continued their as Principals until the [undecipherable] February [17][undecipherable]0 — when he was call'd by the then [undecipherable] of War — and [undecipherable] by Congress [undecipherable] July Comm'y General with the sole Management of the Department acted Commissary General 12 July[undecipherable] 81 — By the [undecipherable] made at the instance of General Knox it seems he wishes to abolish the present establish- ment — what is to the substitute of the abolition obtains — how the [undecipherable] on the Peace establishment be [undecipherable] on — there are things to be and of what magnitude — what Officers are to [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] — wide will it be expected that Store Keepers will be found sufficiently, informed to undertake — whose Characters are equal to the charge and who will be responsible for the proper execution of the Business — [strikethrough: the present set of Officers in the Department] It retires from Service — how are the accounts of the Department to be adjusted — many of which depend on verbal contracts —