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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 Legislature in prospective, and placed under the control of the commander in chief to the use of the Quarter Master Generals department, and that in some cases the sums expended in this department have been considerably beyond the appropriations, which have been provided for by future Legislation; but there