Pittsburgh, 24th October 1790 Sir

I have Received your Letter of the 18 thInstant, [undecipherable] equitable to you Letter [undecipherable] the cause, the [undecipherable] Cartridges Mahony hall be Cary ul au Expeditiously as pascilles In my Letter to you of the 26thof September, & Assured to you that in lone equence of the Legislature in this Country, the Garrison of Fort Layette, had been augmented, the Barrack them [undecipherable] sufficient to accommodate all the Troops, I am therefore at the particular Request of Col. Butte making an Addition to the Barracks, and have a Erected a Block House, which stands in the South West Bastian, the Lower Stay of the Bastian is to serve as a Commissary Store House, it was also found necessary to Build an Oven & Bake House, and a Guard House, these Buildings notwithstanding I have Carried them on with the Skeletal Economy will Considerably increase the Expenditures, at the Post, all this additional Expence has been Occasioned by the leaders of the Insurrection, the principle of which I am apprehensive will Escape punishment, by either Assembly Or by deceiving Government into an Opinion, that the Country is in a State of Submission to the Laws in order to prevent the approach of the Army, while in much dreaded by the Insurgents, but, which, is Essentially, necessary to the Execution of the Laws of the United States I am with Respect Sir Your Obet Humble Servt Isaac Craig Honble Major General Henry Knox Secretary of War Philidelphia