1843 Manuscript Document for Lieut. G. H. Talcott Commanding the Augusta Arsenal in Georgia. Letter relates to "Returning Property...

Washington DC: U.S. Army, 1843. Document. Good. Approx. 10' x 8" document. Folded sheet. 2 pages of contents with address on back. Letter written July 27, 1843 and received 2'nd of August, 1843. Some of the content is difficult to decipher. Transcribed a s best as possible:

Ordnance Office Washington 27 July 1843

Lieut. G. H. Talcott Comnd'g Augusta Arsenal

Sir:

It becomes necessary to enclose your property returns for correction, neither of them having the certificate required by the 148th article ordinance regulations, and now rendered necessary by the change of termination of the fiscal year from 30 September (truncated) to that of June.

You drop from the quarterly return a quantity of stores as "sold": no account sales have been rec'd see 103 article: there is also a number of articles dropped under the caption of quotation marks broken up, worn out, lost, and dropped quotation marks but no voucher. These stores should be embraced on an abstract giving each item a separate line, and attaching such explanations aside show the particular manner in which it was disposed of, in fact, all articles disappearing from the return, should be covered by a proper voucher, so that the ? May pass at the treasury. The same remarks are applicable to the tool return having omitted to send any vouchers with it: the stores "turned over to Lt. Hagner" do not appear to do not appear on the quarterly return as having been turned in, as it is supposed was the case. The tools of iron, steel, etc. should be taken up on the quarterly return either as unserviceable, or there wage in scrap iron, steel, a letter has been received two day from W Baker requesting certain connections certain corrections to be made to the return but as it has to be sent back for those others, he will be best able to make them himself and for which purpose please submit it to him respectfully I am your obedience servant {sp.?]

Signed [in different hand than than the content]

G Talcott Lt. Col. Ordn. (Inventory #: 28666)