War department July 2. 1798 Sir, Be pleased to deliver to the order of William Mashhey forty swords for noncommissioned Officers, Six drums Six fifes three hundred and fifty Brushes and Wires and three hundred and fifty Gun Worms [strikethrough: taking his receipt to be accounted] or returned at the expiration of the engagement or other discharge of the lot Pursuant to 3^d S[ec]tion of the Supplement to the Act authorizing hies [undecipherable] became a provisional Army. James McHenry Samuel Hodgdon M^r John Harris [marginalia, rotated: War Office / July 2. 1798 / for M^r Mashhey —] Return of Articles wanted for Murphey's [undecipherable] Swords for Non Commissioned Officers — 40 Drums — 6 Fifes — 6 Pickers & Brushes — 350 Worms — 350 [War department notation, upper right, partially illegible]