, Hant[s]. 1800 [Dr.] Herewith you have the draft of a Bill respecting the corps of Engineers & Artillerists. I vary in mode not in Guidance from your report by defining the Regiment of Artillerists at its comple- ment (say four Battalions &c.) and & suspend the organising & raising of one battalion — This comes to the Same result & appears to me most correct & Systematic. I leave a blank for the privates, suppose there may be a mistake in printing as I cannot make out the principle of 700 privates to three battalions 65 (an odd number) to a company — Perhaps the actual establish- ment is a preferable Standard (say 48 p^r company excluding Artificers which for a full Regiment will amount to 768 I cannot endorse your two "Colonels to a Regiment of Engineers &c." 'Tis "Monstrum horrendum [underline: informe] &c"— I [am] framing a third Y^rs truly Bill A Hamilton [Hamilton] [corps of Engineers from Alex. Hamilton with letter March 8 — 1800] An Act [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Engineers to be brought forward Be it enacted &c. 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The [undecipherable] of the Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] may be found not qualified for the corps of Engineers may be [undecipherable] to that corps and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be, they [undecipherable] their rank be transferred to the [undecipherable] in grade corresponding with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] may remain attached to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] according to their respective ranks [undecipherable] vacancies in battalions and companies as they shall [undecipherable]. And be it [undecipherable] enacted [undecipherable] Officers of the present [undecipherable] shall be formed into [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Officers [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Regiment [undecipherable] Regiment to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Regiment — And be it further enacted that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Regiment of Engineers and Artillerists [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] shall be [undecipherable] to those of the Regiment to which they are to be [undecipherable] And be it further enacted that in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that shall [undecipherable] out between the United States & any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] power & in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] of their territory shall in the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it shall be lawful for him to organise and cause to be raised [undecipherable] Regiments of [undecipherable] Artillerists in [undecipherable] to that provided for by this Act [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Battalions of Artillerists [undecipherable] as aforesaid and for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] to appoint [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Officers thereof and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the United States — from the [undecipherable] of the United States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or bodies politic or persons [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a sum not exceeding _______________ dollars — And be it further enacted that the corps of Engineers