Philadelphia 11^th April 1798 Sir I send you the requested returns of Ordnance, restricted to such pieces only as are mentioned in your last [undecipherable] as have them on our Accounts. Colonel [undecipherable] of the Senate has a Bill in from from the Quarter master for $400 Dollars which he wishes to have [paid?] to day or tomorrow. I will if you approve add the [underline: amount] to our memorandum before you. [Yr?] Sir Your most obt Servant James McHenry Esq^r Samuel Hodgdon Sir, Philadelphia, 16^th April 1798 I have received your letter of the 13 Instant. I will try to procure a Bill [undecipherable] I trust I will [undecipherable] to you. The claims are to be examined as soon as current business permits— your draft shall meet due honour. With respect to the [undecipherable], of stating my payments on your account [undecipherable] first observe you have them before you; No notice has been taken of [undecipherable] more then to [undecipherable] those payments they are not appear — in my Books, you are simply charged with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you to each [undecipherable] you mention— I am sorry the Secretary has not complied with your past expectations relative to your pay— I have endeavored to make arrangements to pay [undecipherable] Interest, but nothing can be done until the [undecipherable: Approxiation] Bill [undecipherable] in Congress. It will be best for you to draw on me as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the amount you wish to have [undecipherable]. When the Bill is drawn [undecipherable] from the Secretary of War to [undecipherable] the amount you [undecipherable] as above [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Major Isaac Craig Samuel Hodgdon