Philadelphia, 22^d May 1799. Sir, To make up the Stores now over at the Laboratory, by to Captain Elliot the following articles are wanting — 3000 Round Shot, Six pounders 1,000 ditto . . . Three d^o 1,000 ditto . . . Nine d^o 1,000 ditto . . . Twelve d^o 1,300 Cannisters for Six pounders. 1,000 ditto . . . Three ditto, 1,000 ditto . . . Nine ditto, 1,000 ditto . . . Twelve ditto — 1,066 Yards Flannel. 10,500 Turner Blocks of Pinas. 20 lb. of Twine — 300 lb. of Paper of Pinas, suitable for Caps & Cylinders — 20 Reams Musket Cartridge Paper — 20 lb. ditto — Thread. — 6300 lb. Musket Ball of Sizes — 10,000 feet seasoned yellow Pine Boards, one Inch thick to make Six hundred and Seventy Boxes for the ammunition — 10,000 Tubes of Sizes — a suitable number it Needs to be provided — they must be solicited by Cap^t Elliot — 1 Small Set Carpenters Tools — say sufficient for Laboratory preparations — 1 d^o — Tinmans Tools — 1 d^o — Turners — d^o — Laboratory Tools to be made or purchased by Cap^t Elliot — Captain Elliot will give the dimensions of the Shot, and superintend the casting of them if done at the Foundery in Springfield — We have Three and Twelve pounders Shot on hand, which will be examined, and, if found suitable for fixed Ammunition none of those sizes need be purchased at present; otherwise they will be wanted, and will be cared for by a subsequent return — Sam — Y^r — To James McHenry, Esq^r Samuel Hodgdon