[Private] Dear Sir New York March 19. 1799 I understand that the Officers for Connecticut have been appointed & their names published, but I have seen no order announcing them — If so, be so good as to send me the list, and if there have been other appointments since the lists transmitted me, pray let them be added. Pursuant to your very proper idea of having at the head of Government the Chiefs of Different Departments — it seems to me adviseable that you should have some Agent for the Commissariate or provision-business, to whom applications may be addressed & from whom orders may flow to the different Contractors — Sub-Agents. Did those provisions of the "Act for organizing &c. the Sev^y at War. which declares that the Adjutant [Dep^t] General shall be as Officer & Inspector General — & which allows the Inspector General as Secretary continue in the Bill when passed? Is there any arrangement which prevents me to calling for the attendance of the Adjutant General when I deem it necessary? Y^rs truly A Hamilton the Sec^y at War.