Gent, Philadelphia 10^th February 1800 I have communicated the contents of your last date to the Secretary of War. He agrees to the allowance of [undecipherable] hundred and fifty dollars directed by each of you as a just compensation for your services while inspecting the Clothing under contract for the present year. You will please to endeavour to fill the [undecipherable: probable reading "blank"] of offers enclosed to you, and return it to me, to be preserved on file with the other papers to which it relates. I am Gentlemen (Your most Ob^t servant Samuel Hodgson Mess^rs [undecipherable] & [undecipherable]