Register Office 27 February 1784 M' Carleton Secretary in the War Office has made application to me for such Charges as with propriety may be brought to the Debit of General [undecipherable] account for [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of his [undecipherable] in commanding Officer at the Post of [undecipherable] in the State of Pennsylvania. On Examining the Records of this Office, I find that the Books of Accounts [undecipherable] that he had drawn more than the Act of Congress regulating the Contractors [undecipherable] officers entitled [him?] [to have] had amounted to [undecipherable] Dollars. for [2?] July 1782 248 Rations £ 22. 4 [Forage?] 240 D[itt]o Forage £ 23. 38. 15. 42. August 124 Rations [Provisions?] £ 11 2 124 Forage £ — 2[?] 33. 5. September amounting — 42. 60 October D[itt]o — 38. 52. Dollars [170?] 72 [remainder of page largely undecipherable] in this [undecipherable] you will be [pleased?] [undecipherable] the United States having paid M' [Laung?] Treasurer [undecipherable] General [undecipherable] upon his acknowledging the amount of [Sixty]- [undecipherable] pounds eleven Shillings Pennsylvania Currency, & his De[sign?] that the same may be brought to a [present?] [undecipherable] the last charge appears more direct than the [former ones?] subject to alteration the Rations both of Provisions & Forage in [both?] these having been [exceeded?] over the allowance to a [Colonel?] He drew as a Brigadier General. I thought these matters not unworthy a communication and a [lieu?] [adjustment?] offered for [what has been?]. Your answer I receive about old Money. I have been favoured with with very [sentiment?] of Esteem, [undecipherable] Friendship — I am ever D[ea]r [Sir?] [Your?] Sincerely [signature — undecipherable] [postal and administrative notations at bottom, largely undecipherable]