[The said Commissary Officer Commanding the Guard at Harpers Ferry is instructed to prevent the Soldiers from leaping over to the Island —] R O 29 May 1800 Returns are to be immediately made for the payment of Clothing due to the different Companies & delivered to the [undecipherable: Pay] Master who is required to make a General Return that they may be drawn as soon as the pay master arrives. Division Orders May 29 1800 That Major Paul makes known to the [undecipherable] a letter he has rec'd from the Secretary of War dated the 16^th Instant on the Subject of reducing the army in [undecipherable] to an act of Congress passed the [undecipherable] Instant which letter is in the following words — (Copy) War department [undecipherable]^th May 1800 Sir, I have Rec'd the following directions from the President of the United States. [undecipherable] you to transmit Copies of the Law for Reducing [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Gen^l Ham[ilton] and [undecipherable] and also to the Commanders of Brigades, with orders to the Major Gen^l Hamilton and Major Gen^l [undecipherable] and also to the [undecipherable] Commanders [undecipherable] ranks of Brigade, will orders to the Major Gen^l to make immediate arrangements for reducing these Reg^ts [undecipherable] 11^th Day of June. There with I do myself the Honour to inclose a printed Copy of the Law Mentioned, and request the Major Gen^l Hamilton and Major Gen^l [undecipherable] will give the most [undecipherable] [undecipherable] order, [undecipherable] the reduction of the Contemplated Regiments on the 15^th [undecipherable] of June. The Major Gen^l will also be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the Officers, and others who have the Custody of Arms Camp Equipage or Military Stores, to Observe the direction of the Superintendent of Military Stores with Regard to Their Transportation and deposit — Gen^l Hamilton will give the [undecipherable] Orders to the pay master Gen^l relative to the pay of the Officers, and [undecipherable] to be discharged — I am Sir V^s (Signed) James McHenry He also announces the Gen^l Orders of Major Gen^l Hamilton of the [undecipherable] Instant, on the same Subject, of the following [undecipherable]: Gen^ls orders May [undecipherable]^th 1800. It is the [undecipherable] duty of Major Gen^l Hamilton to Announce [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable]^th Instant [undecipherable] the following [undecipherable] that an act of Congress passed the [undecipherable]^th Instant Does Authorize the President of the United States to discharge on or before the 15^th Day of June next all Such Officers Non Commissioned Officers and Privates as had been appointed Commissioned or recruited under [undecipherable] the Art. to Augment the Army of the United States, except the Engineers, Inspector of Artillery, and Inspector of Fortifications — Containing a proviso that the Power hereby given Should not be — to authorize any Reduction of the first [undecipherable] Regiments of Infantry, the two Reg^ts of [undecipherable] Artillery & Engineers or the two Corps of Light Dragoons — or of the Gen^l and other Staff Authorized by the several Laws for the Establishing and Organizing of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to each Officer [undecipherable]