War Dep^t [strikethrough: the] 11 Jan^y 1799 Dear Permit me [strikethrough: to] request upon an add here that I said yesterday to request that [strikethrough: you would], Laying [strikethrough: all] aside other business, employ yourself on the two military bills say. The recess is short and there little to come. If possible let me have bills by mondays mail or at furthest tuesdays. I have not been able to ascertain what part some of our friends in the house [strikethrough: mean] [strikethrough: will] take respecting the [strikethrough: officer] most the [strikethrough: appropriations] necessary for the New Army. on an examination of the Laws I was [strikethrough: inclined] to relinquish the opinion, that any had provided for other expenditures on acc^t of the new Army. the [strikethrough: are] [strikethrough: might] what might be [strikethrough: in] [strikethrough: at the] [strikethrough: before] end of the [strikethrough: next] [strikethrough: taken have] be covered [strikethrough: is the] [strikethrough: must] session of Congress — [strikethrough: unless] the present. see the [strikethrough: of] [strikethrough: Law] [strikethrough: of] act of the 16 July 1798 — You know the causes & distinctions which pre: [strikethrough: vent] [strikethrough: people] [strikethrough: are] [strikethrough: from] doing any thing [strikethrough: many] [strikethrough: from] [strikethrough: for] raising the army into effect [strikethrough: into the] [strikethrough: last year] Yours &c [strikethrough: My] [strikethrough: Nichlas] Hamilton