[Copy] [Docket, right margin:] Copy / President of [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Regiments Philadelphia May 15^th 1800. Sir I request you to transmit Copies of the Law for reducing the twelve Regiments which passed yesterday, to Major Generals Hamilton and Pinkney and also to the Commandants of Brigades, with Orders to the Major Generals to make immediate Arrangements for reducing those Regiments on the fourteenth Day of June. I pray you also, in concert with the Secretary of the Treasury, to make Seasonable preparations for a punctual Compliance with the other provision of the Law, by advancing the three months Pay to the Officers and Men. I am, Sir with great esteem Your humble Servant, John Adams The Secretary of War. True Copy from the Original in the President's Handwriting. Jno newman Ck War office