War department, Dec. 8 1792. Sir, Captain Freeman is so engaged, that he cannot attend — The Secretary of the Treasury and the Sec^y of War, have no objection that, in the present emergency, M^r William Knox be re-quested to inspect the fifty suits of clothing, of in your Billington & Young, ordered for Capt. Cass at New Hampshire — Please to have it done ac-cordingly — Yours respectfully — [signature] Stagg for [signature] Samuel Hodgdon, Esq^r