When I enterd [entered] Pensacola in the month of Nov. [November] 1814, a Battery in the main street mounted with two French Fours , was opened upon my column, which was immediately charged & carried. These peices [pieces], it is beleived [believed], were landed by the British, & were British property: — The Spaniards have never claimed them

Having good carriages they were conveyed to Mobile , where they remained until the restoration of peace, when the officer commanding at that fort ( Col. Wm [Colonel William] P Anderson ) was directed to have them, with their equipments forwarded to Nashville with the discharged militia: The Colonel dismounted them, & sent only the barrels.

The threatened hostility of the Indians on the Mississippi induced me to have them remounted & made ready for the field — The expence [expense] attending which (amounting to $ 258) has been paid out of the public funds, under the [unclear: rapposition ] that they had become the property of the United States

On this subject, the circumstances of which are thus laid before you, I wish some order to be taken.

If the government cannot consider them as the property of the nation & shall refuse to receive them the expence [expense] of recounting them will be charged to me & the guns [added: be subject to [unclear]] [unclear: resoudes ] at my [added: own] disposition

I have the honor & c [et cetera]

Andrew Jackson

Mjor Genl Comd. O. S. [Major General Commander of Service]

at my [added: own] [unclear: disposition ] Hon Wm [Honorable William] H Crawford }

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Washington City7 Dec. [December] 1815Genl A. [General Andrew] Jackson

[added: relative to the payment & c [et cetera] of Expences [Expenses] incurred in mounting 2-4 pounders taken at Pensacola & c [et cetera]] [added: Decr. [December] 1815]

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The Honble [Honorable] W. [William] H. Crawford Sec. [Secretary] of warpresent

[added: Capt [Captain] Woolley of the Order [unclear: Patting ] has been directed to take charge of the [unclear: Gant ] — J morton Dec. [December] 20 1815] [added: The Superintendant [Superintendent] of the ordonance [ordinance] department will take the necessary ordence [added: measures] to preserve the property & the [unclear: accsnitant ] will allow the [unclear: sin ] expended upon [added: in] remounting them[added: Colonel Bumford ]]