Deducting Clothing Expenses from Ragged Soldiers' Pay

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Whetstone point, Nov^r 23 1796 Sir This is to inform you, that some of the Soldiers at this Fort had so very ragged clothes, that, the time when their uniform cloathing will be due to them, being distant yet, I could not, but furnish them with as they were most in want of. the ammount of which I will respectively deduct from their pay. In order the better to effectuate which, I wish you would be pleased to give me a Specification of the usual price of the Uniform cloathings, that I may thereby calculate what to deduct from their respective payments. By doing so You will oblige Sir Your most Subm^t Servant [undecipherable: probable reading J. Guimpe] Lt 2 & E. M^r Hodgdon [Endorsement on cover: Lieut [undecipherable: probable reading Guimpe], 23 November 1796. Wants to know the Customary price of Clothing for the Artillery —] [Stamp: 871. Received from State Dep't Nov. 24 1801. R.P.O. 401810.] Major Hodgdon — Philadelphia

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Since some of the soldiers at Whetstone Point have nothing but ragged clothing, Grimke wants to know if they could be furnished new unform clothing while having the cost deducted from their pay. He wants a specification of the actual price of uniforms so he can deduct the proper amount.