I am informed the Muskets and Cartridge Boxes, ordered from Shepherds Tavern to Baltimore, are deliverd I am Sir Your most Ob^t Servant, Samuel Hodgdon James McHenry Esq^r Secretary of War Sir, Philadelphia 8^th September 1799 I have received your Account with its documents. I cannot understand the 19^th Voucher which is M^r Shutes Acct. The whole amount is £24.10.0, but reduced by a credit of the 1^st June last, of £7.11.0 to £16.19.0. On examining my Books I find a charge in your last Account for a payment made on that date to M^r Shute of £22.3.7 purporting to be for the Wharfage of Routledge & Sled, & Freight of 327 lbs of Routledge to New York. Before I can adjust the Account I must request you to explain the business to me. — The sum charged for trouble appears enormous, but I perceive M^r Barnes has power to bring it to what may appear to be reasonable. I am Sir Your most Ob^t Servant, Samuel Hodgdon M^r Melaneton Smith