War Office April 14. 1796 Sir The Secretary of War requests that you will have made and transported to [Cecil] furnace Seventy paper Cannon Cartridges agreeably to the dimensions [which] M^r. De [undecipherable] will furnish you with — I am Sir Your ob^t Servant [undecipherable signature] Samuel Hodgson [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1894. R.P.O. 401310] [Docket, verso:] War Office April 14. 1796 relative [undecipherable] or furnishing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgson Francis [undecipherable: Lacosta?] requests M^r Hodgson to Cause to be turned one model in wood of 2 feet and half long and five inches and two tenths Diameter for making the paper Catridges he wants for Cecil furnace — The [subscriber] is the person who made [undecipherable] [undecipherable: under charge?] [undecipherable]ection the within repairs were made and [he] certifies that the charges as far as forty [undecipherable] [undecipherable] fourteen Shillings and three pence are [undecipherable] to were performed under his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [discharged?] he thinks [undecipherable: reasonable?] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1894. R.P.O. 401310] [oval stamp: 126]