Sir New York April 9^th 1799— Probably before this reaches you, you will have learnt from himself that Gen'l Wilkinson has been directed to repair to the seat of Government in order to a Review of the affairs of the Western Army & Country— & to the Settlement of a future plan with the aid of his lights— In the mean time the command will Naturally devolve upon you, & it is presumed you will have received from Gen'l Wilkinson the instructions proper for your Government— This serves only to [undecipherable] [The] Pay Master General at the desire of the [undecipherable] War has been required to come to Philadelphia, Constituting a deputy to act in his stead [in] the Western Army — I send you herewith for distribution among the several Posts, Copies of a Contract with James O'Hara for the supply of the [undecipherable] Western forces & Posts to the last of September [undecipherable]. As this contract was made [prior?] [undecipherable], I did not understand till the [undecipherable] it remained to be transmitted— [undecipherable] you the Copy of an Act [undecipherable] for the better Organizing the [undecipherable] States, & for other purposes [undecipherable] was passed the third of March last. [The] 8^th Section of it demands particular attention, [undecipherable] to be sensible of the importance to even us of producing Uniformity in this particular [to] the troops every where— In the intervention [of] the Act of July 16^th 1798, by [undecipherable] this in law was