Treasury Department April 19^th 1799 Sir Enclosed I transmit to you a letter from the Secretary of War accompanied with an order on Mr. Jn^o Harris keeper of Military Stores for an hundred weight of ball, four quarter-casks of Powder and a proof-stamp. — These articles I will thank you to receive and cause to be forwarded to Mr. Thomas Annely at Harpers Ferry, to be used by him in proving the barrels of musquets fabricating in the State of Maryland for the United States. — I am respectfully Sir Your M^st Obt Servant Ja^s. Wilkins Jr. Esq^r. Quarter Master General. — Oliv. Wolcott [Copy of letter sent from the treasury department directed to Jas. Maller in the absence of John Wilkins Jr. Q^r. Genl.] [Address panel: Mr. John Nourse]