[290] taking their respective receipts holding them accounta[ble for] the due application of the same — Sam 8º W[illegible] Lieu^t Peter Shoemaker Accountants O[ffice] Fredericktown M^d Apri[l] Sir You will receive from John [undecipherable] Esq^r supervisor Baltimore the sum of two hundred [undecipherable] which you will be pleased to give him the necessary recei[pt] yourself accountable, being for the use of the Recruiting [undecipherable] Sam 8º W[undecipherable] Lieu^t Samuel L. Dyson Accountants O[ffice] Port Tobacco, M^d Apri[l] Sir You will receive from John [undecipherable] supervisor Baltimore, the sum of two hundred dollars [undecipherable] you will be pleased to give him the necessary receipts, hold[ing] yourself accountable, being for the use of the Recruiting [undecipherable] Sam 8º W[undecipherable] Lieu^t Thomas Underwood Accountants Offi[ce] Richmond Va April [undecipherable] Sir Received your letter of the 27 Inst^. encl[osing] your account for pay & subsistence from 1 January to 31 March [undecipherable] before it can be acted on it will be necessary that you forward to this [undecipherable] certificate of the contractor or supervisor of the contract prices of ration[s]