[Cover: Genl John Wilk[undecipherable] / 24 August / 1797 / Rec'd [undecipherable] / Advice of Drafts] [123] [Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1894. R.P.O. 40131p] Pittsburgh 24^th August 1797 Sir I enclose an addition to [the] estimate for expenditures in the Q.Mast. dep[artment] for the months of June, July & august. — Since mine of the 9^th instant I have drew on you the following bills, Viz N° 44 in fav. George Wallace Esq^d dated at Pittsburgh 20^th august 1797 at 15 days [sight?] for [undecipherable] Dol[lars] " 45 in fav. [undecipherable] dated at Pittsburgh [undecipherable] [undecipherable] " [46?] [undecipherable] [multiple lines illegible due to water damage] [...] to M^r [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Secretary] of War. I beg you to [undecipherable] me, whether they are right, [so] that a final adjustment of their accounts may take place. M^r Matthew Ernest acts as a[ssistant] Q.Mast. Gen[eral] at Detroit — He has my authority to draw [undecipherable] from time to time, as he may require [undecipherable] for the expenditures in the Q.Mast. Depart[ment], numbering his bills regularly from N° 1 upwards, & keeping you constantly advised. General Wilkinson has ordered a Schooner of about twenty tons burden to be built at Detroit the ensuing winter, should it meet with the approbation of the Secretary [of] War — I have written to him on the subject. — [I] will please to call on him, & should he [undecipherable] the [undecipherable], you will buy all of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [will be requisite] to come from there without the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — The articles [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] Detroit will regulat[e] [and] will be wanted for the new Schooner — In addition to which there will be required a quantity of paint white, yellow & black, & two barrels of Turpentine & one of Resin. — I enclose two memorandums, one for Col^o Thong, & one for M^r Ernest, for articles [they] want, which I beg you would purchase & for[ward], marked for them at Detroit — you will charge me with the amount, & forward the bills to me that I may receive the [undecipherable] from them [undecipherable] I am Sir your mo[st obedient] [undecipherable] Q.Mast.[undecipherable] Col^o Sam^s Hodgdon Philadelphia