[On Public Service / Col. Sam.^d Hodgdon— / Intendant of Stores / Philadelphia] [Docket endorsement, upper right, written sideways: West Point Dec. 13. 1800 / [undecipherable]] [File stamp: Received / No. 40.810] West Point, Dec. 13. 1800. Sir, Your favor of the 3 instant I received the day before yesterday — and your order for 822 cannon Shot for 24 pounders. For my returns furnished you, are 97 rounds shot (which of course are agreeable to the Gage) 719 ditto larger than the Gage, & 6 d. less than the Gage, which make the total amount 822. I did not specify for the return how much larger than the gage the 719 shot are — I have measured a number of the largest of them which are, at most, a tenth of an inch too large to go through the gage. I should think they will answer for old 24 pounder ordnances, as rust generally occasions their calibers to be larger than when new — & if I may judge from seeing & measuring the calibers of some new 24 pounders, [interlined: that were] on the wharf at Governor's Island, they may answer for some of the new pieces — therefore I will ship them to General [undecipherable] expecting it will meet with your approbation. Their windage is only a quarter of a tenth of an inch less than the French allow for the windage of their pieces — I mean if the calibers of the 24 pounders are exactly of the proper size. I am, with the greatest respect & esteem, Sir, Your most obed.^t servant, Geo. Fleming. Col. Sam.^l Hodgdon, Intendant of Stores, Philadelphia