Intendants Office Nov 24. 1800 3 Barrels of Powder &P Lane Salter for the purpose of Proving Cannon [undecipherable] Intendant of Stores Office Philadelphia 24^th nov. 1800 Sir Be pleased to deliver to Mess^rs Lane & Salter, or order, three single Barrels of Powder/ of not less than seventy yards range, for the purpose of proving cannon cast by them, under contract with and for the United States; agreeably to a requisition from Col. Lewis Tousard, dated the 22 instant Your most ob^t Servant Samuel Hodgdon M^r John Harris Nov^r 24. 1800 D.^o 3 bls