[The Honble the Secretary of War Pittsburgh april 26^th 1793 11] Sir I am favored with yours of the 20^th Instant, and with pleasure acknowledge the particular attention that you have paid to my requisitions for the present year. Respecting your observations on the debts of pay in my Department, enclosed in my estimates, I beg to mention for the [undecipherable] of July, unless you will allow a seperate explanation there, and [undecipherable] will be pleased to agree that the Calculation is at present erroneous, and in case of payment for duties, it will not be sufficient. — Your orders respecting the Public Horses in Kentucky state to be adjusted to — I see this day lacking many affairs of Public Items at this place to have on Books, and these cannot to preserve order in allowing for the forage I remark on the 29^th new Stationary, we have a very plentiful Stock in the State and on this occasion it is Supplied in abundance [and?] in excellent order. I have the honor to be your Most Ob^t Humble Servant My Honble the Secretary James O'Hara of War — D M Gen Abstracts of pay for the Quarter master Department for the 1 July 1793 — Deputy Quarter master General 6 Months [undecipherable] Dollars his Deputies 128 his Commissary of Forage [undecipherable] his Assistants 360 An [undecipherable] Quarter Master [undecipherable] Clerk 1080 Two Deputy Commissaries of Forage [undecipherable] An [undecipherable] Master Examiner 720 [One] Hundred & [twenty] Baatteaux 6 Months [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars 5760 Sum Conductors of [undecipherable] Armaments 170 [undecipherable] the Articles & Armament 6 Months 2[undecipherable] After 26^th 1337[undecipherable] Dol[undecipherable]