[Retained on granting your duplicate rec^d for the Treas. Sam H^o] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philad^a Commissaries Office July 10^th 1800 Sir The Secretary of War has issued a warrant in your favor as Attorney for Joseph Williams of Springfield for sixteen hundred Dollars, on account of the armoury at that place, & agreeable to the request contained in your letter of the 9^th inst^t. I enclose the form of your receipt together with the Draft which when you have signed you will please to return it to this Office — Sam H^o [W.S.] M^r Will^m Chancellor Philad^a July 14^th 1800 Sir I have received your letter of the 6^th Instant, with its enclosures which will be placed under examination with the accounts already received & you will be informed of the result. Sam H^o [W.S.] Brev^t Henry G. Mecklenburg Fort Norfolk N^o July 11^th 1800 Sir I have received your letter dated 3^d Inst^t concerning your account of expences from Fort Norfolk to Harper's Ferry, attesting a Board martial in the case of Cap^t Blackburn. He all claims of that nature in the first instance are to be examined [undecipherable] by the Pay master of the respective Regiment, I return you the account inclosed for the purpose of making the proper application to the Pay master of your Regiment — Sam H^o [W.S.]