War Office Aug 21^st d 22^d Tents d Poles to be deliv^d to the State of Pennsylvania [flourish] [address panel:] War Office M^r John Harris N^o 71. North Water Street. War Office August 21. 1797 Sir, You will be pleased to deliver to Colonel Clement Biddle Quarter Master General of the State of Pennsylvania any part or the whole of the Tents in Store having the same previously valued by Major Fisher and any other indifferent person and taking Col^o. Biddles acknowledgment for the amount of the Tents deliv^ered agreeably to the Valuation — I am Sir your obed^t servant James McHenry [signature] Please to deliver them to Major Fisher as he may have Occasion for them & he will by himself or the person he Appoints Attend the Valuation on behalf of the State of Pennsylvania. Aug 21. 1797 [signature: Clement Biddle] M^r Harris, 2 M^r [undecipherable] [address:] M^r John Harris