[Docketing: Compt. Williams / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] Samuel Hodgdon & Commissary of Stores Philadelphia [Received / From / State Dep^t / Nov 24 1854 / B.P.O.401810.] [34] Springfield Dec^r 12^th 1800. Sir, Your letters of the 8^th & 9 ins^t came to hand this morning enclosing an Order for forwarding to Fort Independance at Boston Military Stores which shall be duly attended to— The [underline: Sheet Lead] is not on hand— the Lead on hand at this Post is in Bars, in this state I presume you would not wish any sent— Enclosed is a Receipt for the Powder forwarded Boston for the use of the Navy— Also an Estimate of the probable amount of expenditures for the Armory for the month of December— I shall have a warrant for the fifteen hundred Dollars by the mail on monday agreeably to advise. I am Sir most respectfully Your Obed^t Serv^t Joseph Williams Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r