War department April 20. 1795 Sir I have received yours of the 13 instant — I am glad the tools and axes are contracted for. Get the axes in the best and such as can be warranted — I am sorry the Drifts have not arrived. Examine well each bask of Powder as it arrives and prove it. Complaints were made on this subject the last year which I wish to avoid — not that I can find there were any just causes for the complaints, but only perhaps of the grain of the powder was too [undecipherable: pri?] fine — I shall depend on the barrion and if you inform me to the contrary — Is the furnace of Turnbull and Marmie in blast and can they immediately cast a few tons of three and six pound shot? The eight brass cannon forwarded you are without carriages the carriages being to be made at Fort Washington the dimensions having been transmitted to that place. These cannon together with a considerable quantity of the powder arrived are to be forwarded by the first safe conveyance after their arrival. I am with great esteem Your humble servant [Mjr Craig]