[letter from the War Office — Oct 3^d 1794 — A letter from the Revenue Office to be attended to] [State Nov [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] War Department Oct 3^d 1794 Sir I have the honor to transmit you enclosed the Copy of a letter of yesterday's date just received from the Commissioner of the Revenue — will you be pleased to pay attention to the contents and give such order thereon as may be immediately necessary? I am, Sir with respect Your hum^t Servant [signature] Stagg jun. Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r [Copy] [State Nov [undecipherable] R.P.O. N^o 3810] [Revenue Commissioner Office] [undecipherable] [Copy] Treasury Department Revenue Office Oct. 2^d 1794 M^r I have received a letter of the [undecipherable: probable reading "23d"] [Sa]muel Hughes of Maryland, one [undecipherable] for casting cannon in whi[ch] he requests that a person [may] be appointed [to] prove the guns, when the first five or six of them are cast; that Shot & Powder may be sent forward, for that Purpose — and [also] that the drawings for the guns bear the figure of an Eagle, the carvings must be [undecipherable] in Philadelphia and four sent [per] week. You will, therefore be [undecipherable] attention to the several [par]ticulars in due time — M^r De Nancey is at M^r [undecipherable] works. I am Sir &c (Signed) Tench Cox — Commissioner of the Revenue [M^r Stagg [Esq^r] Chief Clerk in the War Department]