[Docket: Head Canton Greenville / Decm^t 4: 1793 / From / Caleb Swan P.M. / recd: [undecipherable] this / 4 Feb. 1794 / H L Camp[bell] Smith] [Address: [undecipherable] Van [undecipherable] / Joseph / Philadelphia] Head Quarters Greenville Dec^r 4^th 1793 Sir, [undecipherable] acknowledging [undecipherable] [your?] [Washington?] [letter?] [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is a [majority?] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [allowance?] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [army?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Captain Benjamin [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Inspector?] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] perfectly [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] [stipulated?] rate [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you in the best manner they Can. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it is [undecipherable] it is for a [undecipherable] of a [undecipherable] to employ one, and an [undecipherable] not the means to [undecipherable] [conduct?] on an emergency of this nature, but the [commander in chief?] [undecipherable] was right to [adopt?] the plan having no other [alternative?] in the then present [undecipherable] for the army and its accounts — I have yet made no report to him on the [subject]. [undecipherable] great want of money, my payments in full to discharged officers and to [undecipherable] discharged from the old 1^st Regt out of the appropriations for the army, amounts to upwards of 3000. Dollars, besides what I have drawn upon for hospital department, incidental Contingencies, fines and Quarters of the army & to amount of about 2700 Dollars more. General [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] to this office [undecipherable] 1793, and [undecipherable] & de Camp [undecipherable] Campbell Smith to [undecipherable] 1793 as an enclosures. I am Sir Your Very Humble Serv^t Caleb Swan Pay Master Gen^l [undecipherable] of the United States H. Howell Esq.