May 17^th 1794. [undecipherable] Enclosed you have Coppy of a litter address'd to the Secretary of War [undecipherable] you will [undecipherable] to pay the [undecipherable] Attention. the first fifteen Thousand Dollars [undecipherable] received you will please to have put up in bags, 1000. each, and sent on soon as posible, as I [undecipherable] other day at Pittsburgh, the [undecipherable] receipt of it. The Balance of the [undecipherable] of 106,000 [undecipherable] with the addition [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] of Cavalry Hors[undecipherable].. you will have prepared in specie. to forward early in July – I sette off [undecipherable] and Shall [undecipherable] to hear [undecipherable] by every good opport[undecipherable] I am S^r Your Most Hum[ble] [undecipherable] A^m Hodgdon Esq^r James O'Hara Quarter Master Gen --- [undecipherable] 1794 In commiss[undecipherable] here with [undecipherable] and exchanging Bank notes for Specie for use [undecipherable]ment at his [undecipherable] to amount of [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] in[undecipherable] the comm[undecipherable] [undecipherable] from General Wayne — & the Deputy [undecipherable] [undecipherable], I find[undecipherable] that a member of [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] been required not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] estimate [undecipherable] [undecipherable] added [undecipherable] exceed the number mentioned for the [undecipherable] demand, in order to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] using the Bank notes [undecipherable] I believe [undecipherable] absolutely wants [undecipherable] that the Sum of 18,000 [undecipherable] placed in the hands of M^r Hodgdon, on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] requisition for the present quarter [undecipherable] before [undecipherable] the Ohio, to be enabled to forward on to me at Washington or [undecipherable] quarters the balance — [undecipherable] in addition upon his own [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] sum of [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] from 156 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] number. [undecipherable]