Know all men by these presents, that I James Bryers Junior of Springfield in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts have made constituted and appointed Samuel Hodgdon Esquire of Philadelphia in the County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and for my own proper use and behoof, to ask, demand and receive of James McHenry Esquire Secretary for the Department of Ware, of the United States of America, or his successor in office, such sums of money as are now, or may hereafter become due on account of a Contract made and entered into with the said Secretary of War, for supplying Rations of Provision and Wood for the Armourers employed by the United States at Springfield afores'd. for the Year One thousand eight hundred, and to give proper receipts and discharges therefor— Hereby ratifying all my said Att'y: shall so for me on the premises — [Signed & sealed in presence of: Jon^a Dwight William Wade] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this fourth day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred— James Bryers Jr. Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampshire } Be it remembered that on the third Day of June in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred James Bryers within named personally appeared and duly acknowledged the within Instrument a Letter of Attorney to be his free Act and Deed. Before Moses Bliss Judge of [Courts of] Common Pleas for [the County of] Hampshire [remainder undecipherable] [signature: undecipherable]