[The Comptroller recd 16^th Dec^r 1796 Enclosing a list of the contract prices of Rations. — [4.15]] Treasury Department Comptrollers Office December 13^th 1796 Sir, Agreeably to the request expressed in your letter of the 1st instant, I transmit enclosed a list of the Contract prices of Rations and in some instances the prices of the component parts of a ration, which have been or may be furnished to the troops of the United States at the several posts within the same during the present year; ascertained from the respective Contracts on record in this Office. I am Sir very respectfully your Ob^t Serv^t [undecipherable] Steel Comp^tr William Simmons Esq^tr