[Addressed: Honorable, Secretary of War.] [Endorsed: Samuel Hodgdon, Letter July 15. 1794] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1904 R.P.O.401810] Philadelphia July 15. 1794 Sir, My Pay for Services in the Military Stores department has been settled with by you for the years 87. 88. 89 & 90 at the rate of [underline: Five hundred] dollars a year — tho' on the adjustment for the two first years, I find a protest against it affecting my claim for a greater allowance — See my letter to you of the 25 March 1790 — but to the point — The mode of Settlement you now propose cannot precisely in the way you mention be carried into effect, as a Settlement on 89 & 90 is made, and it appears on a review of the Subject that the Settlement [undecipherable] you is the only one that do me [undecipherable: partial?] justice — It is founded on Contract, and if not to be paid as Stated, I must pray you and M^r Hamilton to devise some other mode at least equal to it, for as it Stands it will not be equal to my expenses during the periods mentioned — I again enclose it — I am Sir Your most obedient Servant Samuel Hodgdon Honorable Secretary of War. [Enclosure — Copy of S. Hodgdon's Acct. against the United States, July 17. 179[4?]] [Financial account statement — figures largely undecipherable due to image degradation and orientation] [Enclosure:] The United States To Samuel Hodgdon D^r. 1791 1 Jan^y 1^st — To my Pay as Commissary of Military Stores from the 1^st Jan^y 1791 to the 15^th March is 2½ Months @ 1250 D[ollars per] annum — is 260. 40 To my Pay as Pay Master to the Army from the 1^st July to 31^st December 1791 @ [strikethrough: undecipherable] [strikethrough: undecipherable] in 6 Months — @ 60 Dollars per Month 360 — To my Pay as Commissary of the Military Stores from the 1^st July 1792 to the 16^th [undecipherable] June 1794 is — 1 year and 10 months @ [underline: 1400] dollars per annum 2603. 33 Dollars 3303. 73 Amount of 1^st Statement after Deducting my Quartermaster's Pay is — — 3044. 67 Deduct above Amount 3303. 73 Against me — — 557. 94 Note — The amount of the Warrants received at the War Office [were?] 1031. 67 Dollars a part of [which] was on account of Pay [due?] me is credited in my accounts in the hands of the Auditor —