[Circular to Commandants of Regiments / [undecipherable] 15. 1799] Circular (10) New York April 15. 1799 Sir It is a question whether it will be most adviseable to distribute the Cloathing for your Regiment among the several [underline: sub] districts to be furnished to the recruits as they shall be raised or to deposit the whole, either at the Regimental Rendezvous or at the place which you shall fix as the rendezvous of each district. As the decision of this question may depend, in part [strikethrough: on the particular [undecipherable] of the officers among whom the enlistments are to be made and] upon circumstances of a local nature it is left with you. If it will equally comport with the success of the recruiting Service, the latter^last mentioned course is to be preferred; because among other reasons it will avoid expences in transportation and hazard of loss by distribution.* [*In either case, the moment the necessary recruiting money shall have been received you may proceed in the recruiting Service without further waiting for the arrival of the Cloathing —] I am with consideration &c Y. Ob'd [undecipherable]