New Mandate on Allowances and Request for Returns
Document 1799Lists allowed allocation of stationary per regiment under new mandate. Hodgdon impatiently awaiting returns on stores under Craig, Hodgdon had not received new information since April 1798.
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[Docketed: [undecipherable] / December [undecipherable]]
[Addressed to: Major [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]
[seal]
Sir— Philadelphia [undecipherable] Decem[ber] [undecipherable]
I know not whether you have been informed of the allowance of Stationery to each Regiment under the new order of things — [undecipherable] a repetition can do no injury — as I know — [undecipherable]
24 Orderly Books
126 Quires folio writing Paper
132 Papers of Ink Powder
1200 Dutch quills — per annum — This may
regulate the [undecipherable] of every Corps or Detachment however situated, and you will be governed by it accordingly — I am very impatiently waiting for a Return as repeatedly mentioned, — No entries to your Store account since 1st April 1790 — for want of partial vouchers — to make this a primary want, or blame will attach — The Secretary of War has ordered me to make the requisitions a new and [undecipherable] all Delinquents — you I am sure will not be of the [undecipherable] number — I am Sir,
[I want the returns up to the 1st of the ensuing year]
Major Isaac Craig — Your Most Obedient Servant
Samuel Hodgdon
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Lists allowed allocation of stationary per regiment under new mandate. Hodgdon impatiently awaiting returns on stores under Craig, Hodgdon had not received new information since April 1798.
Date
12/11/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Philadelphia
Collection
Document number
1799121136001
Page start
1
Note
Cited in Craig to Hodgdon, 12/20/1799.
Notable persons
Isaac Craig
Samuel Hodgdon
Notable locations
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Notable items
stationary
mandate
Act
vouchers
returns

