[undecipherable: Philo Wm—] [Recorded] [Vol 39 No. 173 173] To D April 15. 1800 Major J^no Fisher Keeper of the Powder Magazine in Phila, has represented to me in the most pressing manner, [strikethrough: his] the unfortunate situation in which he finds himself in consequence of the non payment of a [undecipherable] demand upon the Purveyor of public Supplies. — I have told him that the accounts must be settled in one of the other Departments being satisfied however that justice requires, that his claim should be speedily [strikethrough: adjusted], I cannot [strikethrough: his] for now complying with his request to so far as to recommend his case [strikethrough: claims] to your particular attention I have the The S^ecy of War