[To D] C. O^fce Aug. 23^d, 1793 Sir, I have the honor to submit to your consideration, a draft of a letter to the Contractors of the Army, respecting the payment of Subsistence to Officers and a proposal for an alteration in the form of the Abstracts of Rations [spend?] which will be [be?] particularly necessary in case the new proposed arrangement is adopted. [strikethrough: It has] [undecipherable] has occurred as a question whether the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Act making alterations in the Troops & War Dept does not require that the [undecipherable] their Rules [strikethrough: of pays] time, is found discharged in money — that Regiment voted by [undecipherable] by the P. M. to the Troops — if this should be considered as the [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] law the argument must be abandoned — but in case the plan is adopted, [undecipherable] the liberty to submit whether the communication to Contractors should not be made from the Officers — I am A. D.