War D^t artment 6^th May 1799 I have received your letter of the 22^nd of April last, enclosing the proceedings of a Court of enquiry &c. Lt James [undecipherable: Treplate?] It is proper that the United States should furnish Barracks for the officers and [undecipherable] of garrison, [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] quarters [undecipherable] passage in [undecipherable] should be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the British service, [undecipherable] and due to a Captain. In [undecipherable] your command[undecipherable] garrison in the United [undecipherable] [undecipherable] heard, is in the situation, in many respects, of a field officer. I should consider him entitled to two rooms I wish to know, before I give any definitive [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at Fort Nelson whether the [undecipherable] answers to [undecipherable] to there are upon the plan drawn by [undecipherable] La trobe, and who is to be the undertaker, and his proposals? I am, Sir, with respect Your most Ob^t Serv^t James McHenry [Ca^pt. R.S. Blackburn]