Articles of agreement made at Philadelphia the [undecipherable] of March Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety Seven between [undecipherable] of the one part and [undecipherable] O'Hara of [undecipherable] of the other part [undecipherable] Samuel [undecipherable] of Pittsburgh [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] — 1^st [undecipherable] that the said [undecipherable] did [undecipherable] himself [undecipherable] the United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] agreed to [undecipherable] the same [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1797. 2^d That the [undecipherable] of the said [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Hundred [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] September One Thousand Seven Hundred and [undecipherable] Thousand [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the respective places and following prices. For every Complete Ration issued at Oswego 18¾ Cents [blank] Niagara 13¾ Do Do Presque Isle 19½ Do Do Steubenville 14½ Do Do (Detroit 22½ Do Do Michilimackinac 25½ Do Do Fort [undecipherable] 12½ Do Do Pittsburgh 12½ Do [undecipherable] Cincinnati 13½ [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 15½ [undecipherable] Amo[unt] For every Complete Ration issued at Fort Wayne 23½ [undecipherable] Do Fort Defiance 18½ [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from Defiance to Mouth of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]o Fort [undecipherable] 12[undecipherable] [undecipherable]o [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 15— For Do on the Mississippi below the [undecipherable] Boundary of Kentucky 17 [undecipherable] Do Fort [undecipherable] 7 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 17[undecipherable] Do At any post or place within the State of Tennessee (the Mississippi excepted) used not already provided for by existing contracts or arrangements for the Year 1797 'Tis agreed however that this Contractor [undecipherable] furnish and issue all the Supplies which may [undecipherable] for the Troops of the United States in the State [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Tennessee from the first of January 17[undecipherable] the Expiration of their Contract. — Should any Rations be required at any [undecipherable] or within any other Districts not specified [undecipherable] the prices of the same shall hereafter be agreed [undecipherable] between the public and the Contractor, but it is [undecipherable] understood that it is in the Option of the public [undecipherable] require the delivery of the Rations at any of [undecipherable] enumerated places or at the designed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the places of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the stipulated [undecipherable] at the places of delivery Provided [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have been required to deposit provisions at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] report and shall afterwards be required to move them to be delivered at another place or post at which the price of the Ration is lower than at the first mentioned place or post, the price to be allowed for such [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as remains shall be that which is stipulated to be paid at the said first mentioned place or post together with the Expenses of Transportation to such other — place or post. — 2 That the Rations to be furnished and delivered by Virtue of this Contract shall consist of the following Articles Viz. One pound of Bread or Flour One pound of Beef or Twelve Ounces of Pork or Bacon Half a Gill of New Rum Brandy or Whiskey — One Quart of Salt Two Quarts of Vinegar} Two pounds of Soap } per Hundred Rations — One pound of Candles } And it shall be in the Option of the party of the second part to issue Beef Pork or Bacon, and in all cases where salted Provision is issued, the article of Salt shall not be required — That on the Delivery of Bread Flour or Meat the per Cent shall be deducted from the gross Weight of every parcel weighed for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but each parcel Weighed shall include no greater number of Rations than are sufficient [undecipherable] [undecipherable] nor shall there be any allowance where it contains [undecipherable] One Hundred Rations. In lieu of this [undecipherable] the Commanding Officer of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] may require deliveries by Company [undecipherable]. It is also [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the Commanding Officer may at any Times and at any [undecipherable] as he may think proper require of the party of the second part to allow in kind of Bread — That where the price of the Ration shall be Eighteen Cents and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that each of the Components parts shall be as follows — Bread or Flour 7[undecipherable] Cts Meat 6½ Do Liquor 4½ Do [undecipherable] articles ¼ Do That where the price of that Ration shall be Nineteen Cents divided into the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Components [undecipherable] shall be as follows — Bread or Flour 7[undecipherable] Cts Meat 7 Do Liquor 5 Do [undecipherable] articles ½ Do That where the Price of the Ration shall be Twenty Three Cents & Three Ninths the [undecipherable] of each of the Components parts shall be as follows — Bread or Flour 9 Cents Meat 8½ Do Liquor 5 Do [undecipherable] articles ½ Do [undecipherable] Where the price of that Ration 23½ Cents as follows Bread or Flour 10½ Cents Meat 9 Do Liquor 5 Do [undecipherable] articles ½ Do That where the price of the Ration shall be twelve Cents and two Ninths the Components parts as follows — Bread or Flour 4½ Cents Meat 5 [undecipherable] Liquor 2½ [undecipherable] [undecipherable] articles ½ [undecipherable] Where the Ration shall be 12½ Cents as follows Bread or Flour 10½ Cents Meat 3½ Do Liquor 2 Do [undecipherable] articles ½ Do Where the Ration shall be 13½ Cents as follows Bread or Flour 6½ Cents Meat 5½ Do Liquor 2½ Do [undecipherable] articles ½ Do — Where the Ration shall be 15 Cts Bread or Flour 5½ Cents Meat 5½ Do Liquor 3½ to [undecipherable] articles ½ Do When the Ration shall be 17 Cents Bread or Flour 7 Cents Meat — 5 Do Liquor — 10½ Do [undecipherable] articles [undecipherable] ½ Do When the Ration shall be — 17½ Cents Bread or Flour — 7½ Cents Meat — 5 Do Liquor — 5 Do [undecipherable] articles ½ Do 3 — That the Supplies shall be furnished by the party of Second part at the Posts of Oswego, Niagara, [undecipherable] (Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Defiance, Fort Wayne, and Fort [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as there shall always be sufficient for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Troops for the Space of Six Months in advance of Bread and [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Both [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Components of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with to furnish the Ration, and that [undecipherable] shall be [undecipherable] advance at each of the other posts — which [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for in this Contract shall [undecipherable] — to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as shall be a fund for the Consumption of the [undecipherable] for the Space of [undecipherable] Three Months in advance [undecipherable] 4^th — That no Victuals but such as [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] shall only be furnished by Hundred Pounds or [undecipherable] for the purpose stipulated in this Contract — 5^th — That whenever [undecipherable] [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be furnished under this Contract [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of the Commanding Officer [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] useful for the [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] shall be had [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] delegated [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Officers of the post, and the other by the said James O'Hara or his Agent, and in case of disagreement a Third person shall be chosen by mutual [undecipherable] who shall have power to condemn such part of the Provisions as to them may appear unfit for [undecipherable] of the said James O'Hara or his Agent shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to appoint a person to inspect the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] within [undecipherable] days [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Commanding Officer of the post, which duties shall be his [undecipherable]. Upon a [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] shall [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the said Commanding Officer to appoint such persons as he may think proper to inspect the provisions under the authority to condemn as [undecipherable] — 6^th That the Inspector General or person appointed by him at each post, to posts or wherever [undecipherable] [undecipherable] shall note absolute failure or deficiency in the Quantity of provisions Contractor to be delivered and kept [undecipherable] shall have power to supply the deficiency by purchase at the nearest place on account of the said James O'Hara 7 — That the said James O'Hara or his Agent shall give [undecipherable] Bills to the Rivers and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Rations as may be withheld from them to be paid every two Months either by the Tickets withheld or at the Contract price by the said James O'Hara the same or the like to be at the Option of the said Contractor or his Agent. — 8 — It is understood that the said James O'Hara is to receive Instructions relating to Supplies for every Troops stationed in the State or Territories of Tennessee or at any posts to the Southward and through [undecipherable] solely from the Commanding Officer in that District or the Agent for the Department of War. 9 — That all losses sustained by the Depredations of an Enemy or by means of the Troops of the United States with regard to the Articles composing the Ration as well as to other property necessary in Transporting the same shall be paid for at the Contract price of the Rations in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] and at an affidavit Orders of the articles on the Disposition of losses incurred to the Character and the Certificate of a Commissioned Officer (when the same can be obtained) ascertaining the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the loss and the Amount of the Articles [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is claimed — 10 — That every Voucher for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Transmissions used for the Provisions the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] against any Enemy shall be furnished whenever the Opinion of three Commissioning Officers of the times or of any post to whom Application may be made, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is to be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and that the party of the second part shall not be answerable for any Deficiency of Supplies at any of the said posts or places if it shall appear upon satisfactory proof that such Deficiency was occasioned by the Want of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] 11 — That at all stationary posts for [undecipherable] Store Houses shall be provided on Behalf of the public for the reception and safekeeping of the provisions deposited from time to time at each post respectively — 12 — That at each of the said posts or places where the Stores shall not exceed fifty Rations per Diem it shall not be incumbent on the party of the second part to employ a Commissary for the issuing of Rations, but Rations may be delivered in Bulk. The Vouchers for which shall be a Receipt or Certificate from the Officer Commanding at any such post who shall promise, for and declare that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had that the Deliveries be proportioned to the number of Troops at such post; and the Instructions which shall have been given to the Contractor by the Brigadier Generals or Commanding Officer of the army. It is also agreed that at the last mentioned posts the Contractor shall where the occasion will permit furnish the Troops with a portion of fresh Meat. 13^th That the party of the second part his Executors and Administrators shall render his accounts to the proper Officer of the Treasury for adjustment at least once in every six Months agreeable to the forms by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or by such other as the Comptroller of the Treasury may hereafter be established and made known to him — 16^th That at such advances of Money as may be made to the said James O'Hara towards the Supplies to be furnished pursuant to this Contract, and at such times of Money as the Commanding in chief may be obliged to disburse in order to purchase Supplies in consequence of any failures on the part of the said James O'Hara in complying with the Stipulations herein contained shall be duly accounted for by him, by way of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] against the amount of such Supplies, and the Surplus if any to be paid to the United States immediately after the Expiration of the time of this Contract, together with interest at the rate of [undecipherable] per Centum per Annum from the time of such Expiration until the same shall be actually repaid, and that if any Balance shall on any Settlement of the Accounts of the said James O'Hara, his Executors and Administrators be found the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for or by reason of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] shall have been applied [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to this agreement the same shall immediately be paid; And that no receipt or certificate, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Officers of the United States shall be given to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the Account of the said party of the second part his Executors and Administrators. — In Witness whereof the said Secretary of the Treasury on Behalf of the United States hath hereunto subscribed his Name and affixed the Seal of the Treasury, and the said James O'Hara to the also set his Hand and Seal the Day in [undecipherable] above [undecipherable] — [United States seal] Signed James O'Hara [seal] Oliver Wolcott Sec[retary] of the Treasury