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Adjutant General's Office, Portland August 12, 1820.

Sir,

I herewith transmit you a copy of [the - stricken] charges preferred by Lieutenant James T. Waters of a Rifle Corps against Colonel William Hiscock of the 2 Regiment 2 Brigade and 4. Division; and also a copy of Gen Frost's letter in answer to mine of the 19 July —

It is a question with me whether the complaint of Lieutenant Waters has been filed with the proper officer within the time contemplated by the statute, and should a Court be instituted, it most probably will be made a point in the trial. —

I have frequently been applied to for supplies for the artillery; there is no provision made by law form furnishing them. I find by the resolves of Massachusetts, that appropriations have uniformly been made by the