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            Articles of Agreement0, made on the Third - day of July    Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and one between Henry Dearborn SAMUEL DEXTER, Secretary for the Department of War of the United States of America, of the one part, and William Colfax, of the State of New Jersey [flourish] of the other part.


THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH, That the said Henry Dearborn SAMUEL DEXTER for and on behalf of the United States of America, and the said William Colfax, [undecipherable] himself his heirs, executors, and administrators, have mutually covenanted and greed, and by these presents do mutually convenient and agree to and with each other, as follows, viz. 


             First. That the said William Colfax, his executors or administrators, shall supply, and issue all the rations, to consist of the articles hereinafter specified, that shall be required of him or them for the use of the United States, at all, and every place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the states of New Jersey & New York, thirty days notice being given, of the poll or place, where rations may be wanted, or the number of troops to be furnished on the march, from the first day of January which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and two 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 issued within the states of New Jersey and New York aforesaid, where the daily issues shall be upwards of two hundred Fifteen cents and five mills, and where the daily issues shall be two hundred or [undecipherable], Sixteen Cents and five mills.

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         Where the price of the Ration shall be fifteen cents and five mills; Bread or flour, Six Cents; 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.