[Private] N^o 2/                    [undecipherable] Washington                             Jany 13^th 1792 It is with great diffidence that I present to your [undecipherable] the following information — A certain [undecipherable] between [undecipherable] Artillery, for the convenience of the ordnance Department, [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] the Commanding [undecipherable] claims it under the arrangements which prevailed during the Command of the late Maj^r Ferguson, the [strikethrough: former] latter as Officer & under your Instructions; [undecipherable] Instructions [undecipherable] appear to countenance [undecipherable] claim: but as [undecipherable] Instructions are not [undecipherable] on that head, & as I shall very unwillingly in-[undecipherable: vent?] any Rule Established by [any] superior Officer, I have [undecipherable] supported the usage in practice [undecipherable] as practiced in [this] Department. Complaint having been made to me of the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] hospital Stores, I directed [the] Inspector [undecipherable] to assist D^r Allison, in [an] examination [undecipherable] he did not consider [the] [undecipherable] of those Stores, but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] It will harmonize [undecipherable] with a variety of [arising?] Interests [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with precision, the [duties?] & [obligations?] of the [various?] Departments appertaining to the Army and [point?] out the [punishments?] — ties to which the Officers of [such] Departments in case of delinquency are subject — The Establishment of Cadets is [undecipherable] — terious to me, & I [ask?] for instruction on [that] head. — Drunkeness has become [such?] an inveterate Habit in this Garrison among the Troops, that I [strikethrough: have been] am constrained to confine the [Troops?] to their Quarters, we have whipped without Effect, until [undecipherable] revolts; indeed the [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [mode?] of punishment, has become so familiar, that it has lost its [usual?] Effect — [undecipherable]. [Endorsed on cover: [undecipherable] Nov. 13. 1792. Received] General Knox —