[Left margin: Tench Francis / Esquire] War Office September 5. 1793. Sir The enclosed letter from M^r Humphreys on the means of [undecipherable] pilot provisions for the frigates at New York and the [undecipherable] is submitted to your consideration [Left margin: The Accountant / of the War / Department] War Office Sept 10. 1793. Sir While Captain Richard [undecipherable] of the Navy is absent on a voyage to [undecipherable] yet it is to be understood that he is by authority from the President of the United States on furlough and his pay and subsistence continued to him as if present. [undecipherable: probable reading J. Knox Sec^r] [Left margin: Capt. Sam. Hamilton] War Office Sept 10. 1793 Sir I have received your letter of the 3^d desiring that you may draw your rations at Boston — There is not to my knowledge any object for an issuing Commissary at Boston, except there should be navy thereabouts, of which I am not informed. If that case, they will now be ordered to leave that place. It will not be expedient to employ a Commissary to supply an Officer besides no other Navy Officer draws rations at present. [Left margin: Capt. [undecipherable]] War Office September 12. 1793. Sir [undecipherable] quarterly [undecipherable] rations to be received at Baltimore as [undecipherable] a prospect that [undecipherable] could [undecipherable] under your superintendency [undecipherable]