Major Isaac Craig Pittsburg

Samuel Hodgdon Decem 23 1796 Philadelhia 23d December 1796 Dear Sir I have just received your letter of the 16th instant with the Packet that accompanied it. I am Sorry to say it does not come p to my request and therefore cannot endure my purpose. How I and know from [undecipherable] you return were received? as to when delivered or how consumed The Names of the persons from whom stores are received and of those to whom they are delivered, and the answer of consumption of any not [undecipherable] receipted for, has been frequently maintained as the only documents on which 8undecipherable] proceed. The disposition of Names in the Return inproper, but in that particular only den[undecipherbale9 differ from those before rejectes as not equal to the system now persuing_ The Return including Stores received, delivered and consumed from April 1795 to April 96 was such as is required, and sch only as will be of any use_ A similar Return to be made ot and transmitted entrains the time from 1st April 1796