[Sec^y of War March 26. 1799] War department 26 March 1799 Sir, I have received this morning your letter of the 23 ins^t. I shall write to day or to morrow to a M^r Timothy Phelps a Merchant in New Haven Connecticut to know whether he will undertake to Store and deliver the Cloathing to the Quarter Master for the 1. and 2^d Districts formed in that State and [blank], if he will, send the apportioned quantity to him as soon as it comes into the public Store. I shall also send the required quantity of Cloathing for the Station within the State of New York to Colonel Ebenezer Stevens. That for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware will be forwarded from Philadelphia by the Quarter Master General to the several Stations. If you will advert to the Purveyor's letter to me of the 12 March ins^t. a copy of which you have been furnished with, it will be perceived that the two Woolen Overall's states in it. The money for the bounties for the recruiting Service will be forwarded to the provisional Regimental Paymasters as soon as possible after they shall have been designated. Your idea respecting indiscriminate enlistments as I now understand it is conformable to the practice we have pursued. You will of course cause it to be adopted