oath that it is a just and true statement of the goods on hand, and the effects of the factory. Your salary will be at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum. You and your Assistants will be found in proper lodgings, and dieted at the public expense. But you will keep an exact account of whatever is purchased, and observe the strictest Economy, and will state the annual expense for the same, in the annual Inventory required to be returned to the Department of War. I am, Sir, &c (Signed) James McHenry --- Sir War Department, Feb 10^th, 1800 I have the honour to transmit, a statement of the trade of the Indian factories, from their establishment, to the 9^th Jan^y 1800, with copies of a letter which accompanied the same from John Harris, Store Keeper at Philadelphia, dated the 8^th instant, and of my instructions to M^r Wright, the factor to the Georgia Store. The instructions to the factor of that at Tellico, Tennessee, are of the same import. Desirous of having the accounts kept by M^r Harris, of the transactions of these factories, according to the most perfect forms, and so as to exhibit at all times a correct view of their actual state, it would be gratifying to me, if agreeable to you, that a qualified person should be named to examine his mode of keeping the