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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 take 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 conformity to this request I received orders from the Governor to establish a guard over the Arsenal to consist of Twelve men 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 part of their pay. The men have become clamorous on account of it and It has been with difficulty that I have to kept them to their duty-- In addition to the above I would add that from apprehensions ente= rtained of an Insurrection of the Negros last Fall previous to the establishment of the Guard alluded to, I thought it my duty to call out a party of the Militia to guard this