By Amount brought forward — 297,432. 66 [written vertically in left margin: Transfer from War Office to the Purveyor for purchases for the Army, to the Contractor for Rations &c for the year 1798 — and to the Agt. for the Med. Dept. N^o 279] 297,432. 66 By Balance — 106,230.— Jn^o de Barme Boyais was destined for the sole [undecipherable: purpose] of granting [undecipherable: him] [undecipherable] to purchase Horses to me the Cavalry Army of the United States, it may be [undecipherable] he can not confirm himself in purchases, for his Expences only find that [undecipherable] but all articles were transfered to the direction of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] appears as it was [undecipherable] as consideration any [undecipherable] of not estimate [undecipherable] their Balance —