[Confidential] Having examined this matter as the Act refers it, in my poor honorable Board, in the 3^d Instead, I find the Claim was violated by his Agent; as I be moved to this following reading 1^st This Treasury Prinsiples in this Commutable Sums, 2^d His personal expressed at Inventory and expedition to [strikethrough: this] actually entitled any fees forever, [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] refund [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] refund 3^d [His Opinions of Money or takes] for sale &[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: Committees] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1798 His Claim on this first head, from the general purpose is that no Officer is entitled whilst in Service to Forage, whilst his ration may long, not been drawn — but as I cannot be furnished with the regulations respecting the [undecipherable] rations allowed to an Officer of his rank, at the time of the [strikethrough: charges] of the price of a ration, or with any data, by which I can be determined whether Forage laws as has not been classed, and as I conceive it, no proper [undecipherable] [strikethrough: late] as pressed to admit new claims of this nature, [undecipherable] might have been settled at the time, with the proper Officer of the claimant pleased— I am of opinion that the charges under this head cannot, [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] by On the second Division of the several Articles, his said use as a violation of the spirit of the 3^d day of Nov. 1799 appointing the head Else removing an expedition to destroy this Shopping at St Johns— Whilst his ration may was to important a [undecipherable], so constantly employed that his appears to need to be defrayed, and that a clamed in this resolution ungoverned [undecipherable] to recur as moving for