3d Septemr 1790Secry of WartoMessrs Elliot& WilliamsatBaltimore “Your friend Colonel Samuel Smith has been here, and has made such arrangements with the Secretary of the Treasury respecting advances as are entirely satisfactory to him. You will therefore not find yourselves any ways restrained in your preparations for want of pecuniary assistance. “I am persuaded that you will endeavour by/ by every possible exertion, to make adequate preparations both in the Commissary & Quarter Master’s line for the proposed expedition. “On your making adequate and seasonable supplies[,] the whole success of the expedition may depend. You will see therefore the urgent necessity of every thing being in perfect readiness.”