The writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks.

340 WASHINGTON'S WRITINGS. [.oET. 50.
and, if the contractors keep up such a magazine of
salt provision upon the Point, as they ought to do by
contract, the detached works should be provided with
ten days' provision also. The rolls to be frequently
called. No officer to be absent without your leave,
and no non-commissioned officer or soldier without
the leave of a field-officer.
The quarter-master having reported a scarcity of
tents, you will be pleased to remove the tenth Massachusetts regiment into the barracks, that their tents
may be delivered up. No buildings, either public or
private, are to be erected without your knowledge; and,
when applications are made to you for that purpose,
you will, if they are admitted, direct the commanding
engineer to point out the situations, that they may not
interfere with the defences of the place. The public
buildings now carrying on, and the alterations and repairs of the works, will engage your particular attention. You know the necessity of bringing them to a
certain state before the frost sets in. Given at HeadQuarters, at Newburg, the 29th of August, 1782.*
TO THE SECRETARY AT WAR.
Head-Quarters, Verplanck's Point, 1 September, 1782.
DEAR SIR,
The late New York papers announce the evacuation
of Charleston, as a matter which would certainly take
* The army moved from Newburg, on the 31st of August, to Verplanck's Point, where an encampment was established. This change
was in consequence of an agreement with Count de Rochambeau to form
a junction of the American and French armies at that place, and also
to be nearer to the enemy in case any hostile attempts should be made
from New York; although, from the inactivity and pacific declarations
of Sir Guy Carleton, such attempts were not anticipated.