are in perfect order and fit for immediate use — Substantial good Guns are meant to be given to the State — The inclosed is the form of the receipt to be taken of Colonel Stricker, when the articles are delivered to him — I wish you to write me as early as possible on this subject — I am Sir Your Most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Major Elias Langham — Form of Receipt refered to in the above letter — Baltimore Received of Elias Langham by the hand of his Waggoner, One Thousand stand of arms, and one thousand Cartouch Boxes on account of the State of Maryland, and in part payment of an account exhibited for arms, loaned by the State to the United States and lost on the expedition against the Insurgents in the fall of 94 — Duplicate signed, [undecipherable] of the same name and date —