[undecipherable] To John Burns Storekeeper of military supplies. In [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] pleasure of the President [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] appointed Storekeeper of [undecipherable] articles appertaining to th[e] [undecipherable] department [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] or hereafter may be placed [undecipherable] under your [undecipherable] keeping [undecipherable] actions and entered into bond with one or two sufficient [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of five thousand dollars on the faithful per[formance?] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or that may be assigned you relative to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1. You will, as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] transmit to the Secretary of War and the Superintendant [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a correct [return?] which shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] United States in the different [undecipherable] or repositories within a [undecipherable] vicinity of [undecipherable] 2. [undecipherable] you will give the Excerpts of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Prinyer of public [supplies?] [undecipherable] and deliver them. 3. You will transmit to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a quarterly [undecipherable] [undecipherable] articles on hand and articles received and [undecipherable] during the preceding quarter. 4. [undecipherable] will receive all gross from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] houses respectively with the amount for which they may sell as well as all money that may be remitted by them. 5. You will [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the hands of such [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the Secretary of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Supplies to dispose of who is to under [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any money [undecipherable] immediately reported in Writing to the Secretary of War [undecipherable] and into the Treasurer of the Institution [undecipherable] no purchases. 7. [undecipherable] you will be furnished by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] heretofore sent to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you will [undecipherable] and the amount of the goods [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from them with which they are to be [undecipherable] 8. you will carefully examine from time to time the articles in your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in writing every two months to the Secretary of War and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] condition [undecipherable] as may be necessary to be done. 9. [undecipherable] allow no [undecipherable] nor suffer any [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] the order of the Secretary of [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of military [undecipherable] 10. [undecipherable] your books must exhibit what articles [undecipherable] have received and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] delivered and to whom [undecipherable] they must show at all [undecipherable] the articles and the quantities of such [undecipherable] on hand. [undecipherable] for every general [undecipherable] [undecipherable] department [undecipherable] keeping [undecipherable] Indian Department [undecipherable] Hospital [undecipherable] department; and in [undecipherable] your accounts you will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all articles of the same [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] returned to by [undecipherable] 13. [undecipherable] you will carefully exe[cute?] all instructions relative to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of the articles [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] You will submit [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of military stores as often as [undecipherable] shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 15. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] necessary in the execution of your [undecipherable]. 16. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. James McHenry