In consequence of Col. Shreves letter to me of Dec^r I laid the bow & review'd of the accounts of the recruiting of [Clarkton?] regiments Officers that the men les [for?] ascertained [year?] in my letter to M^r derson of the [gentleman] of my Office list to be correct. But the Officers have received the whole subsidies due to the recruits in the whole maade ups to Feb^y 1. 1797 and [strikethrough: from] over, from the time they drew rations in the [W.] of pay to the time they had done recruiting and drew rations in the war. they is therefore no allowance, a while the money paid by Col. Shreves could be appropriated converting the bounty to the Men and the [provisions?] to the Officers. It is easy to find the whole numbers of recruits joined and not joined that the whole year; but it is impossible to know whether they owned any goods of their bounty, or whether the officer entitled in all cases [such?] cases as would entitle him to the provision on the principles has the following account is [therefore?] made out in the greatest amounts that [cannot?] called the expense could probably arise: and therefore on the part of the late, as his Office must certainly be [favor?]. The [question?] [was?] many recruits to whom [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I [promised?] cannot be made as to this calculation. [Because?] the whole [numbers?] I find amounts to 366 Men, and the actual [recruits?] of the regiment, made on the 4^th of May 1797 would the whole amount to no more than 274 Men, including 73 [absentees?] or furlough the greatest part of which either were [undecipherable] furlough before this and [joined?] the Army or were included on