Lieut. John Rodgers of the Frigate Constellation, Baltimore Sir Accountants Offi[ce] May 2^d [17]9[undecipherable] You will receive from John K[undecipherable] Supervisor at Baltimore the sum of three thousand two-h[undecipherable] Dollars, for which you will be pleased to give him the ne[undecipherable] receipts, being on account of the pay of the Petty Officers, [undecipherable] & Ordinary Seamen, on board the Frigate Constellation, [undecipherable] you will disburse agreeably to instructions from the Secr[undecipherable] of War & is to be accounted for at this Office Sam [undecipherable] Lieut. Manning I Vascher Fort Oswego, care of John[undecipherable] Meyer Esq. Rotterdam, state of New York Sir Accountants Off[ice] April 26 [undecipherable] I duly received your letters 1 st & 31 Ults the former enclosing Muster & Pay rolls of th[e] Detachments at Oswego to the 1 March last, and the latter an account of Bounties due to the detachment under your [undecipherable] I have caused the examination of the Pay rolls to be suspe[nded] until you inform me the particulars of [undecipherable: Serg^t] [undecipherable] you such as the detachment, or post he was sent from[,] [undecipherable] & the cause of his having back pay due to him from 21 Jul[undecipherable] this suspension has hitherto proved of no consequence, as [undecipherable] has not yet passed the law appropriating for the pre[undecipherable] Year, as soon as it is done no time on my part shall be lo[undecipherable]