Philadelphia 16 March 1798 Sir Since the letter that accompanies this, was closed M^rs Taylor has applied and has received her Husbands monthly allowance agreeably to Contract. enclosed you have her receipt. I have applied for the Receipt you mention, and found it at the Auditors under examination, it is impossible to procure the Original, but you have an accurate Copy of it, properly attested. I have no letter from the D^r Mason Sent by the Post consequently hear nothing from himself relative to the Payments made and to be made to the Ship Carpenters I am Sir Your most Obed^t Servant Major Isaac Craig Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia 16 March 1798. Sir The post of Pitsburg on what several others depend for their supplies is intirely destitute of Company and Orderly Books, Sealing wax, and fine Ink powder; I will thank you for an order on the public Store Keeper to deliver Twenty Company and thirty Orderly Books, three pounds of Sealing wax, and Six papers of Ink powder for the use of the post and its dependancies Waggons to haul to morrow may take them forward. I am, your most obedient Servant, James M^cHenry esq^r Samuel Hodgdon Secretary of war.