Fort Wilkinson January 6^th 1800. Sir Your Honour will please pay to M^r John Harris, Keeper of Military Stores, the One hundred Dollars, which Lieu^t Charles Wright of the 3^d United States Regiment has requested should be paid to my order on Account of his pay — from your obedient & humble Servant Edward Wright United States Juitor The Hon^ble James McHenry Secretary of War Philadelphia [know of no Channel through which Lt Charles Wright can draw his pay but that at the paymaster who Receives it Pays it to the Corps he belongs to, the provision for paying the troops in Tennessee is regular, the money is regularly deposited there in the Hands of the Agent nor must he let so regularly drawn from him — Wa^r Dey 1^th by 1800]