[From Major General H. Knox Secretary of War] War Department November 29^th 1793 Sir, I have the honor to enclose a duplicate of my letter to you of the 25. Instant which was forwarded by Colonel Mentges to Pittsburg. It is to be regretted as productive of delay and inconvenience that you had not acted definitively upon the proceedings of the court Martial in the case of [undecipherable] Morgan. The President has had the subject under his consideration, and for the reasons contained in the opinion of the Attorney General herein enclosed he has directed me to return you the said proceedings in order that you may pass your [strikethrough: judgment] thereon. As soon as this shall be done I request that you will be so good as to cause the proceedings to be transmitted to this office and to remain upon file and that M^r Morgan may have a copy agreeably to the articles of war. The enclosed is an extract of a letter from him of the 20^th inst objecting to the proceedings being the original proceedings of the court, and giving his opinion of M^r Hlyse as a judge advocate. I have the honor of transmitting you a copy of a letter from the Comptroller of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Treasury, and also one from the Secretary of the Treasury to me upon the subject of the irregular payments made by M^r Swan the paymaster. I pray you to enjoin on M^r Swan the most perfect observance of the regulations heretofore established [strikethrough: heretofore established] by the Treasury, for the payment of the troops, and to direct that the cases which will not admit of such observance, be transmitted to the Treasury agreeably to the request of the Secretary. The disorder which prevailed in this City seems to be at an end and Congress are expected to commence their Session in the course of the next week. I have the honor to be with great esteem your obedient Servant Major Gen^l Wayne H Knox Sec^t of War