[Copy] War Department June 9^th 1791 Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 22^d and 29^th ultimo and of the 1^st instant. The Clothing and Cantines for [undecipherable] Battalion must have all reached Fort [undecipherable] on or about the 1^st instant. First Iron was sent forward in order to make the Camp Kettle at Fort Pitt — Camp Kettle [undecipherable: ready-made] would have been [undecipherable] seized by the transportation. The Knapsacks were neither painted nor strapped — Mr [undecipherable] Quarter Master was to forward both paint and straps. But in order to remedy the matter entirely I have directed a sufficiency to be painted and strapped here and they will be forwarded in a few days. The Quarter Master says that he consulted good judges on the article of the Pack saddles — but I believe from your [undecipherable] of representation that he has been mistaken. I am satisfied that you have employed a some [strikethrough: a] persons to make true for other halter of the materials which you mention to make up the pack saddles have not been already forwarded which I believe is the case it shall be done immediately. The