Fort Pickering— 3^d Oct 1797 Sir Since Major [undecipherable] left this country there have some [undecipherable] occurred in the payments department in which I found myself at a loss to act without advice— Capt Webb says the Quartermaster General at Lexington authorized him and [undecipherable] the right to take any horse[s] of the Tract for their own use and that they might amount to the United States for the original Purchase at a future day— Each of them [often?] have an horse under the above circumstances— The [undecipherable] took his some time since and [undecipherable] and sold the one in his possession— Would it be proper for me to deduct those sums from their [undecipherable] fees pay which they say was the original Purchase? or is it a matter of which I have any business to take notice? Cap^t Bibb and Lieu^t Cobb have applied to me for six months pay as deranged officers— Cap^t Timothy had applied to me for the balance of an [undecipherable] account which he says is in his favour at the [undecipherable] office— Two hospital nurses and one matron have applied to me for their pay with the certificates of [undecipherable] Kellipsy & McCreer that they have necessarily done the duty and are entitled to the legal compensation— [undecipherable] Allison has applied to me for the amount of his expenses while on command and in captive[?] at Fort [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] amounted to [undecipherable] $46 as [undecipherable] deranged [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] is $46 [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] law[?] of the Troop? [undecipherable] W^m Varfield to receive twenty or twenty five dollars for his monthly pay? Is a Major of Infantry entitled to forage? Has Brig^t McCrea the Forage and [undecipherable]— [Fort Pickering / Oct: S: / Hugh [undecipherable] Calhoun / [undecipherable] 25 Oct[undecipherable] / Am. D. [undecipherable] / Oct. 3] [The Accountant for the Department of War Philadelphia]