Philadelphia 4^th 12. 1798. Sir In answer to your enquiries I inform you that Contracts may be entered into for supplying any number of Gun Stocks that may be wanted and at the usual price of Twenty five Cents. M^r Henry Fraley of Germantown will supply on contract one thousand Stocks a Month if contracted for they will after inspection, be turned in to the public Store and drawn from thence by order of the Secretary of War. We have a sufficient number on hand to keep a supply untill those to be contracted for are properly seasoned. This information you may use as occasion may require. I am Sir Your Most Obedient Servant. Samuel Hodgdon. M^r Whitney — Philadelphia 19 June 1798. Sir Agreeably to the mode proposed I have closed Abrahams thick patrick's Account with the War Department and now close the account and Certificate that the amount may be confirmed to my credit — With sentiments of respect and esteem. John Sir Your Most Obedient Servant. Samuel Hodgdon. John Steele Esq^re Comptroller —