[Sam^l Hodgdon Eq^r [undecipherable]] T. D. C. 1[undecipherable] 30^th Sept^r 179[undecipherable] The President of the United States having designated you to execute the Office of Intendant of Military Stores it is requisite that your Duties as relation to the Departments of War and the Treasury should be defined and that general principles should be added for governing the accounts of your Office and of the Officers & persons intrusted with the keeping & distribution of the public property The forms now herewith transmitted having been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, are to be regarded as the basis of the proposed arrangements, in respect to which the following principles will deserve special attention. 1^st. That all arrangements having for their object the purchase of Military Stores Cloathing, Indian Goods Supplies in the