Articles of Agreement, made on the Third day of July Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and one between [underline: Henry Dearborn] Secretary for the Department of War of the United States of America, of the one part, and [underline: William Colfax, of the State of New Jersey] of the other part. THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH, That the [strikethrough: said] [undecipherable] on behalf of the United States of America, and the said William Colfax, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by these presents do mutually covenant and agree to and with each other, as follows, viz. That the said William Colfax doth covenant and agree to [undecipherable], their Agents, and after all the rations, to consist of the articles hereinafter Specified, that Shall be required of [undecipherable] for the use of the United States, at all [undecipherable] and garrisons [undecipherable] and Stations that may be established or renewed within the limits of the [underline: State of New York], — They does not being a bring [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at place, where rations may be required, as the proper person commissioned on due notice from the place of delivery — [undecipherable] at the following places, in such [undecipherable], that [undecipherable] shall be continued and delivered [undecipherable] five until the thirty first day of December of the same year, inclusive at the following prices, that is to say, at any place where rations Shall be filled within the State of New Jersey and New York aforesaid, where the daily issues Shall be upwards of [underline: five hundred fifteen cents and five mills], and where the daily issues shall be two hundred or less [underline: Sixteen Cents and five] [undecipherable] ration Shall be as follows, viz: Where the price of the Ration Shall be fifteen cents and five mills, Bread or flour, Six Cents; Fresh Meat, Six Cents; Liquor, two cents; Small parts, one cent five mills. Where the price of the Ration shall be Sixteen cents and five mills, Bread or flour, Six Cents; Meat Six cents five mills; Liquor two Cents five mills; Small parts one cent five mills. Second, That the ration to be furnished and delivered by virtue of this contract, shall consist of the following articles, viz: Eighteen Ounces of Bread or flour, or in lieu of one pound of flour, one quart of corn, or one and an half pound of dried or boiled Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh Beef, or one pound of fresh Pork, or one pound of Salted Beef, or three quarters of a pound of salt pork, or when salt Beef is issued at the rate of a pound and a quarter, the price Shall be the Same as for fresh Beef; and where Salt pork at the rate of a pound Shall not be had for every hundred rations: and whenever the commissary in chief of the army [undecipherable] shall be found expedient, four ounces of hard soap may be Substituted for the one gill of spirits. It is Stipulated, that the Contractor shall keep constantly on hand, at each post, a sufficient quantity of provisions, to supply Said rations Shall to us, that of the Issue, and a reflection in the price of every ration, of which unless Spirits make no component part, be made and considered as a fair and reasonable allowance. It is understood, that if the Contractor Should be unable — or after reasonable notice, refuse to deliver sufficient provisions of the articles not otherwise provided for by this contract, to direct when, and how often their Rations Shall be found by [undecipherable] for every ration, for which he may fail to deliver: and in case the price of provisions should be — on effect, the articles of life Shall not be required, that the contractor Shall always clear four two days in every week, and the rations of bread or flour to be as aforesaid — at Such times and places — — at the Saveral places and military posts, that are or may be established in the face aforesaid, upon the requisition of the officer directing the issues, in Such quantities as Shall be required, not later than three [undecipherable] before the rations may be wanted, and that the Contractor Shall take [undecipherable] of the provisions, with the receipt of the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of all the articles forming the rations. It is understood, that if the contractor shall not be able to deposit provisions at one place or poll, and Shall afterwards be required to remove them, or to delivered, at another place or poll, the expenses of transportation in both either place or poll, Shall be agree to the United States.