[Address page docket notation: Navy [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 1798. / Supplies —] [Address: [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Philadelphia] Navy Department 81 22. August 1798. Sir Arms, &accoutrements are immediately wanted for two Detachments of Marines, Major Burrows has orders to send to [undecipherable], ready to receive them. The Sect of War has written you to Supply such articles as you have, obeing order. Be pleased then, to deliver to Capt Giles, such arms, accoutrements & Commanities, as Major Burrows wants, for these two Detachments. The Military Stores under your care being procured for the Navy as well as the Army, ought to be del'd to my order, without the interposition of the Sect War - tho' his opinion both [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable] Pickering [undecipherable]) & Wolcott coincide with me — & the thing must be hereafter regulated. However, in the present instance, the Sect War having reported, there can be no different. [undecipherable: probable reading I proceed] with the action for y[ou]r. Most Obd Serv. Ben Stoddert [Address: Sam[uel] Hodgdon [undecipherable] Military Stores]