[Public Service] Lieu^t Col Com^{d t} Hamtramck Pittsburgh [seal] [docket: J. Wilkinson] Head Quarters City of Washington Nov: 27^th 1800 Sir I transmit you under cover the Contract of Mr. Thomerson, for the supply of provisions to the Troops N.W. of the Ohio, & on the Lakes — I shall leave this place for Pitts Burgh in three Days, where I have occasion for my old Quarters, it therefore becomes necessary you should take quarters in [undecipherable] with a pole company, & a great scarcity of Officers, Capt [undecipherable] cannot have a furlough — indeed it is my intention so soon as the Corps are completed, to [issue] no furloughs, but in cases of very extraordinary importance — Long have since your order for the [undecipherable] of Capt [undecipherable] b[undecipherable]