[Docket: James Miller / 18^th April 1799 / [undecipherable]] [Address panel: [undecipherable] Esq.] [Oval stamp: 82½] Apr. 18. 1799 Sir I may perhaps have misund- erstood but supposed that [underline: clothing] was not to come through this department except as to the mere transportation business. You will observe that the Invoice now inclosed you contains Vests for private Artillery men. I will be oblig'd to you to inform me by the Bearer whether every article of every description that is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Harris by order of the Sec^y of War [undecipherable] are to come through the Q. M. Gen^l [undecipherable] to be back in his Book to the diff^t Posts Officers to whom they are sent — Yours [signature: undecipherable] turn over. — And it is probable you may want Money from me to pay some of the Debts that are becoming due — would it not be best to get a warrant for 2 or 3 thousand dollars in case of any[undecipherable] of that kind and other [undecipherable] on me sent as C. Harris at sight J.M.