All Possible Pains Taken to Execute Orders: Page #2

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Your first order for one thousand [undecipherable] was completed and since that time, Six hundred &fifty nine, have been forwarded, yo will ow receive one hundred fifty and more aid now on hand, and shall be forwarded by [undecipherable] Reed in a few days.

Captain Shatt [undecipherable] has now in charge all the [undecipherable] that have come to hand since Captain Silles [undecipherable] departure as free. Invoice which [undecipherable] principally of Cavalry of Artillery Cloathing [undecipherable] . Samuel Hodgon, Esq' informs me, that returns of Cloathing for the several [undecipherable] have been transmitted to head quarters duplicates of which he he sent me, you will please to observe that Highhead [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the General [undecipherable] Cavalry Cloathing is not in this Invoice, as ir has not yet come forward. I hav wrote to Mr Hodgdon respecting it.

Mr Hodgdon informs me by his letter of the 3^rd [undecipherable] , that [undecipherable] sending forward the last [undecipherable] or[undecipherable] that he had sent them on without [undecipherable] , expecting a sufficient quantity of those articles on hand at [undecipherable] washington, but least any difficulty should occur in processing those articles at Head quarters. I have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and the Smiths[undecipherable] to work, who [undecipherable] will have [undecipherable] completed by the time the Carts arrive.

Mr Hodgdon also informs me, that on the 3 [undecipherable] , the Cloathing for the 1^st Sub Legion was there