these Posts receive & distribute the Spirits according to your directions. A boat must be provided for the Revenue Officer at Wheeling, and the Commanding Officer at that Post must afford him all proper assistance in the execution of his duty. In your passage down the Ohio I request you to inspect into this Subject, and give the orders herein enclosed. I am Sir H. S. Knox Sy of War [Col° O'Hara D. M. G. Phil° May 23^d, 1790] Without a moments delay after the receipt of your letter, I made proper application for the 15,000 Dollars requested, the amount I have received but not exactly in the kind of money you wished. the Secretary of the Treasury for reasons which he stated at large to the Secretary of War, would not consent to forward more Than one third part of the demand in Specie. this in a tight. cash to your address marked [underline: Spiller Holder] &c goes from hence in John Dunwoody's Waggon for Pittsburg this morning, and he engaged without accident to deliver it in 20 days. Post notes for the remaining 10,000 you will receive with this letter. the other part of your letter on