[The first image is an archival placeholder card reading "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically." It is not part of the original document.] Pittsburg[h] 23^d Dec. 1796 Sir I have drawn on you of this date a bill No. 69. at 15 days sight in f[avo]r. of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for four hundred dollars, for the [contin-?] expenses of the War Department. I am &c [undecipherable] D. [undecipherable] The Hon[ble] [undecipherable] James McHenry Sec[retar]y of War In [undecipherable] writing. P.A.