[endorsement on outside of folded document, text rotated 90°:] This writing [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the [Secretary?] to furnish him with the information to be drawn from his Office relative to the subject of the resolution of the House [Ad. 20.] [Observations] [June [undecipherable] for the 25] [July 1801] In the House of Representatives of the United States Tuesday the 17^th of February 1801 On Motion, Resolved, that the President of the United States be requested, to cause the proper Officer to lay before this House, a particular detail of the expenditure of the monies appropriated by the Acts of the fourth of May and moth of July, One thousand seven hundred & ninety Eight, and of the 10^th of May, Eighteen hundred, for the purpose of purchasing Cannon and Arms, or fabricating the same, and the purchasing, leasing and establishing of foundaries and Armories shewing the quantity of Cannon and Arms purchased or manufactured, the foundaries and armonies established, and what lands have been purchased for the purposes of erecting foundaries, together with their respective quantities & situations. also a list of the Warrants drawn on those appropriations specifying in whose favor each Warrant was drawn, and for what purpose. Extract from the Journal (sign'd) John H. Oswald Clk