[Docket/wrapper page. Administrative notations include: "For the Office of the / Commissary of Military Stores!"; routing notation "General Knox / Secretary of War / Secretary's Office"; reference numbers 217 and 212; additional notations at bottom right including partial text "[Williamston?] [Island?]", "1793", and references to financial amounts including "Million Dollars" and "advances"; notation "[Johnson's?] Office"] Sir Richmond Dec. 13. 1793 Enclosed you will receive one of the duplicate Rec^ts of Cap^t Joseph Perkins, the Director of the Artificers destined for New Orleans. the sum Advanced, of one [undecipherable] hundred & fifty Dollars, as expected in the det[undecipherable] which became necessary from the long detention of the [Boon?] - you have been informed by him of the Calamity which befell the Vessel in going out [undecipherable] - the men were afterwards sent to [Norfolk?] where to, remained until M^r Perkins could hire to put them up. You will be pleased to remit me the amount this [sum?] to settles with the [undecipherable] d[undecipherable] formerly adv[anced?] M^r [undecipherable] C. D. Rectors Arms in Bank Bills [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] pa[rts?] I am [undecipherable] Sir Your M^st O^bt S[ervan]t [Signature — undecipherable] [Address:] Gen^d [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]