Philadelphia, 26^th April, 1799. Sir, On Tuesday next I shall leave this city for New york, and shall without accident be there on Wednesday. My business is to re-examine the reputed castings, which prevents your accounts being closed, at the Treasury of the United States— I shall first inspect those in yards, in the charge of Mr John Blagg, and then come in to Elizabeth town there to see the shot there deposited; and if the weather and circumstances permit I shall be there on friday— The purpose of this notice is to request you to go a [undecipherable] previously and have them all collected, so that they may easily be handled, and brought into view— Every shot will be examined, and my report will embrace the precise [underline: number] as well as kinds received or reputed. I am, Sir your most obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon John Jacob Faesche Esqr. Sir Philadelphia, 26 April, 1799. Since writing the letter that accompanies this I have [undecipherable] the Invoices of Goods for the several nations of Indians, whose annuities have been [undecipherable] since my last. they are as at [undecipherable]— your most obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Piankashaws— Patawatimes, Kaskakias, [undecipherable: Kickapoors?] Weas— [undecipherable: Eels?]— To Major Isaac Craig— Pittsburg:—