[Illegible Text card: Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [1799 Sep. 2] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] the off[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to you in[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be actually absent, and requiring [undecipherable] [decisive: undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I shall issue, in conformity a[undecipherable] [undecipherable] the commu- nication to all the officers of the 1^st Regiment of Artillery [and] Engineers and the four old[?] Regiments [absent?] from their commands to use all possible expedition, to report themselves to you, that they will be held amenable[: undecipherable] to any avoidable delay[s: undecipherable], [undecipherable] themselves and [undecipherable] those who do not report in four months from the date of the notification, will be [presumed: undecipherable] to have resigned their Commissions. You will be pleased to report the names of all those who do not comply with this requisition, and that such proceedings may be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] them, as the [circumstances: undecipherable] may judge proper. I have the honor to be, &c. [Your?] [obedient: undecipherable] [servant: undecipherable] James [undecipherable] Major General Alexander [undecipherable]