Sir:

You will receive herewith enclosed two Acts of Congress of the 12th & 16th Inst. for reforming the eleven Companies of the Artificers raised by the Quarter Master General, making provision for and granting certain benefits to that Corps in particular, that they be considered as part of the eighty Battalions apportioned on the several States to which they respectively belong, also another Act of the 16th Inst., requesting the aid of the several States for obtaining witnesses and depositions in the trial of cases before Courts Martial.