[Endorsement on verso: Intendants office / Oct 9. 1800 / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] dept / to Cap[t] — [undecipherable] for the use of / the U S [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] of Lead] Intendant of Stores Office Philadelphia 9^th Oct^r 1800 Sir Be pleased to deliver Cap^t Joseph Elliott or order, Two hundred weight of bar Lead for the use of the U. S. Laboratory on [undecipherable] hill, agreeably to a requisition from Cap^tn Joseph Elliott dated 8^th inst Your most ob. servant Samuel [undecipherable: probable reading Hodgdon] M^r John Harris Public Storekeeper Philadelphia