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[stamp] Received from State Dep't Nov. 24, 1894 R.P.O. 401310 August 15th 1794 Sir

    Some time last February I received a letter

from the Governor of Virginia covering a dispatch from the Secretary of War requesting his Excellency to [illegible] the Publick Store at [illegible] under his protection and to make what arrangements he should think best for their [illegible] effectual preservation and security in conforme

this request I received orders from the Governor [illegible] [illegible] a guard over the Arsenal to commit of [illegible] man with a promise that the soldiers should receive their pay monthly, this order I have long since obeyed but I have not yet received any past of their pay. The men have become clamorous on account of it and it has been with difficulty that I have to tell them to their duty-- In addition to the above _ add that from apprehensions onto ctained of an Insurrection of the Negros last Fall prisons to the establishment of the Guard alluded to, I thought it my duty to call out a party of the Militia to guard this