Now I have all pages. Let me transcribe what is legible across the document. [Cover docket:] [undecipherable] 1790 [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading "25^th May 1798"] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [Secretary?] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire [Cover] Philad— May 25^th 1798— Sir, Herewith is [undecipherable] orders to me to send all the [undecipherable] I had; but [undecipherable] meant all [undecipherable] I should have done [undecipherable] certain [undecipherable] to the Navy Yard— He has repeatedly told Mr. [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] individually to continue mak[ing] until he should tell us to stop— the [undecipherable] have upwards of 25 [undecipherable] made & [undecipherable] several Hands employ'd making more, [undecipherable] price he told me [undecipherable] days [undecipherable] did not [undecipherable] for what [undecipherable] is not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of April last— [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Alg[undecipherable] [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] to dis— by his order [undecipherable] not begun this year [undecipherable] Mak[ing]— [undecipherable] to complain of— but I [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] I was encouraged to go on— not —not only from his [undecipherable] those [undecipherable] are sent [undecipherable] Cap^t Smith [undecipherable] but from his sending a Message to me by our young [undecipherable] that I was not well [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] them for want of an [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] then call'd at [undecipherable] either that or the next day, I went [undecipherable] to ask— my pardon the same day [undecipherable] this order for the [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] this [undecipherable] troubles, it [undecipherable] me, he would [undecipherable] to having his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Remo[undecipherable] I [undecipherable] state these [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] they [undecipherable] had not a right to [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] on my own part, I do consider all I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Parties— I am with sentiments of Respect Sir your obed^t Servant [undecipherable signature] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Send to the Navy Yard all the round Cannon Ball of the following Siz[es] and take Captain [Morris?] or Cap^t Smith's [Rec^t] which will [serve as?] [undecipherable] for payment by 18 pound 9 [pound] 6 [pound] Add the [undecipherable: probable reading "cartage"] to the Bill [This was Rec^d the 15^th or 16^th [inst?]—]