[Addressed to: Honorable Secretary of War] [Docketed: Samuel Hodgdon, July 15, 1791] [Stamp: Received, State Dep^t., Nov. 2[undecipherable], B.P.O. 401[undecipherable]] Sir, Philadelphia July 15 1791 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 — the'n on the adjustment for the two first years, [I] filed 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 in 89 & 90 is made, and it appears is a review of the Subject that the Settlement awarded you is the only one that [undecipherable] me now [pro?] justice — It is founded on [contract?], and if not too hard 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 — I am, Sir Your most obedt Servant Samuel Hodgdon Honorable Secretary of War. [Modern archival note: Enclosure/s — The following enclosure/s was/were found with this document. Only those enclosures that were found with the cover document are displayed herewith. (Missing enclosures may, however, appear elsewhere in this publication.)] [Enclosure — Account statement, largely undecipherable due to image degradation. Column of figures visible at upper right:] 5 2½ 14.00 ½ B .25 3½ 91 .701 1/2 91 .701 [Further figures and account entries undecipherable] [Docketed at bottom: Acct of S. Hodgdon acct against the United States, July 17, 1791] [Signature undecipherable] The United States 1791 To Samuel Hodgdon D^r Jan^y 1^st — To my Pay as Commissary of Military Stores from the 1^st Jan^y 1790 to the 15^th March is 2½ Months @ 125⁰ Dollars per annum — is 260—40 To my Pay as Pay Master to the Army from the 1^st July to 31^st December 1791 @[undecipherable] — is 6 Months — @ 60 Dollars per Month 360— To my Pay as Commissary of Military Stores from [the] 1^st July 1792 to the 16^th [June?] 179[5?] is — 1 year and 10 months @ $1400 dollars per annum 2603—33 Dollars 3303.73 Amount of 1^st Statement after Deducting my [Ration Masters accts] Pay is — — 3044.67 Deduct above Amount 3303.73 Again same — — 537.94 Note — The amount of the Warrants received at the War Office [is] 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 —