[Philadelphia], 24 Oct. 1780. Denning writes from the Treasury Office that traveling to New York in July he observed “unpardonable negligence” in the management of flour magazines, especially at Pittstown and Hackettstown, New Jersey.1 Denning wanted individuals held accountable, and was upset to learn from Ephraim Blaine, commissary general of purchases, that Charles Stewart, commissary general of issues, “is busily engaged in collecting proofs of the innocence of his Deputies” and ready to “charge me with a malicious report to Congress. … Mr Stewart may be a very good Man, but it is a duty he ow[e]s the publick to see that his deputies do their duty, and not when an inquiry is made to fly in the face of facts to Justify their conduct.” Denning also cited problems at New Windsor and Chester, New York.2