[23] Samuel Hod[undecipherable]son Eq^r [undecipherable notations on right side] [F. 6523] Pittsburgh Feb^y 24^th 1793. [N^o [undecipherable]] I received yours of the 16^th Instant Covering [undecipherable] Bank Notes of one Hundred Dollars each and your draft on Do[undecipherable] for [undecipherable] Dollars, which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable — several lines obscured by ink damage] [undecipherable] Public [undecipherable] the 3^rd of [undecipherable] seeing to it you would [undecipherable] [undecipherable]ichond, the design of my proposed [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the 1^st Instant, that the Ordnance [undecipherable] [Mil-] itary Stores, Clothing, and Hospital [undecipherable] to pass through my department, and to be kept [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — you were right in your first Idea of Classing the Articles. I am convinced that [undecipherable] accounts, will be easier kept, and the [undecipherable] may be made with less difficulty[undecipherable] [undecipherable] its will not require any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ments and [undecipherable] Should the amount of [undecipherable] Bills [undecipherable] Bills be paid out of my last Requisition, the Balance will not be Sufficient, and I am obliged to prevent his drawing [undecipherable] any more in that way. This is my third letter to you by this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] day [undecipherable] Unusually [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Your most Hum[undecipherable] James O[undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Eq^r