[Endorsed: Samuel Hodgdon, dated July 15, 1791] [Received stamp: Received / Sir from: / Nov 2[undecipherable] / R.P.O. 40[undecipherable]] [Document number: 66] [Address: Honorable Secretary of War.] Philadelphia July 15 1791 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 Five Hundred dollars a year — [strikethrough: the] 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 [undecipherable] a review of the Subject that the Settlement [undecipherable] you is the only one that does me now proper justice — It is founded on contract, and if not too [undecipherable] 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 expences during the periods mentioned — I again enclose it — Sir Your most obed^t Servant Samuel Hodgdon Honorable Secretary of War. --- [Enclosure: Account of S. Hodg[undecipherable] against the United States, July 17, 1791] [undecipherable] 14.00 [undecipherable] .75 3/[undecipherable]91 .701 [undecipherable]/91 .401 [undecipherable] 21 [undecipherable] 261 [undecipherable] 91 [undecipherable] 76 [undecipherable] 1260 [undecipherable] 21 [undecipherable] 01 [undecipherable] 301 [undecipherable] 701 [undecipherable] 701 96[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 701 [undecipherable] 701 2 12 [undecipherable] 62 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Signed:] [undecipherable] of S. Hodg[undecipherable] [undecipherable] against the [United] States July 17. 1791