Instances of a correspondence with officers under command and [undecipherable] immediately by the General Sec. Knox writes to Maj. Gen. Wayne July 20 1792. "you will direct Brig. Gen. Wilkinson to keep up a constant correspondence with you. I shall answer all the letters I have received from him, and transmit you a copy thereof, as well for your information of past events, as to show you that a correspondence is not unnecessarily carried on from this Office with an officer under your immediate orders" [same letter requires expressly that Gen. Wilk[inson] is under his command.] Same letter - "The regulations relative to the receipt & delivery of stores of all sorts shall be transmitted to you as early as possible." July 27. to the same from the same. "As persons may be wounded or disabled it is necessary the ordnance requisite to entitle them to receive the pensions should be regulated - The following is therefore prescribed. the substance of which was contained in my letter to Brig. Gen. Wilkinson of the 17th inst, a Copy of which has been transmitted to you" The regulations respecting invalids and[the] transmitted in the letter above alluded to in the first instance and a copy [Address?] of this letter to Gen. Wilkins[on] transmitted to Gen. Wayne - he [has] considered [it] as [for] general government in all such cases. [to remark "at this time you come expressly under the command of Maj. Gen. Wayne and not commander in [chief?] [undecipherable] directly [undecipherable] these regulations [undecipherable] them they [?] some have directly to you - this [undecipherable]"] It would indeed be [an] extraordinary thing were it not proper for the Sec. of war to transmit a regulation or ordinance of the Presidence & when urged [ments?] by such circumstances as those mentioned on them without the intervention of such causes, [you] should be too distant to be used as the medium or when [paping?] from [him] should be considered necessary to ensure a [more] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] prompt obedience in those it immediately concerned Expressly informed in his instructions that regulations were making & Continuation of Instances. 3 Aug. 1792. letter from Sec. of war to Gen. Wayne "To transmit you a copy of the instructions and regulations from the comptroller to the paymaster to the army. The original was forwarded by the last post to the paymaster" 7 June 1793 [underline: [undecipherable]] Special interference Gen. Wayne informed 7 June 1793. "I shall direct L^t Col Clarke with the troops from the upper garrisons (Ohio) (Gen. Wayne at that time at a [undecipherable] on the Ohio) to move down in the fore part of July, excepting the small garrison mentioned in my letter of the 17^th ult, and in order that the difficulty may be [lessened?] in case of the lowness of the waters, he will be directed to establish a post at the mouth of Wheeling below which there is generally a sufficiency of water" Letter to Lieut. Col. Clarke. 18 May 1793. "you having been directed by the commander in chief to remain at Pittsburg as the commanding officer on that quarter. I request that you will keep a regular communication by Post to this office and as early as possible transmit me a complete return of the several detachments posted at Fort Franklin, Pittsburg, Marietta, Galle[opolis?] and any other subordinate stations within the sphere of your command and the names of the officers at said posts respectively." July 20^th 1793. Gen. Wayne informed "The copy of my letter to L^t Col. Clarke of the 29 ulto is inclosed (see Gen. Wayne's letter military, book vol. 3. p. 2[?]) by whom he is directed to order all the troops to Fort Washington excepting those mentioned"