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Can any saving be made in the Q. Masters department? If the western posts are to be taken possession of, by the U.S. the expence for transporting the troops stores & provisions, will be very considerable. The expence of [undecipherable] supplying the different posts with provisions [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] Nor [undecipherable] than the last [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in flour to be [undecipherable] to which must be added the difference between a Land & water transport [undecipherable] [undecipherable] found [undecipherable] to contract in time to make use of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The water transport from Pittsburg to the Miamis of the Lake generally [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the middle of May and does not commence [undecipherable] again till September. On the [undecipherable] however the expence of [undecipherable] the Q. Master depart. On the whole no correct estimate can be formed at this moment on the subject. Ought a provision be made for the appointment of a judge advocate to the establishment? Considering what may be the distance upon a permanent arrangement of [undecipherable] officer [undecipherable], how inconvenient it must be for a judge advocate [undecipherable] to be continually travelling from one to another as cases would occur to require his presence; and the hardship that individuals must suffer by having their trial delayed less he could attend, it is thought the best not to decide [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] till it can be further examined or its necessity becomes more apparent and [undecipherable] manner at these [undecipherable] to— James M^cHenry Sec'y of war. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Ought the military force of the U.S. be diminished? 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From a sense of the inadequacy of a militia to answer these general purposes without the aid of a regular force. [undecipherable] it would be [undecipherable] that one or all of them render a certain military establishment essential to the peace and [interests] of the [undecipherable]. 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