[40] Cap^t Samuel Eakins                                Accountant's Office Richmond V^a                                         June 2^d 1799 Sir, I have received your letter of the 20^th With enclosing the receipt bill for pay of your Detachment for the month of March 1799 which has been examined for correct - amounting to One hundred eighty three Dollars 40/100 which sum will be paid to your order on the Books of this Office — In respect to the reasons known by you or all have servant, no reason can be had contradictory to the one expressed of — that it is not contemplated by law that our Officer should draw returns for servants, since that a regular soldier, as in that one there is no reference to the Muster has as he would, were he not a servant, a man his rations in common with the other soldiers in the line — you will therefore consider yourself chargeable as pointed out in my letter of the 6 April last — Sam^l [undecipherable] No: [undecipherable] Lieut^t Ferd^d St Clairens                                June 7. 1799 Fort Norfolk — Sir, I have received your letter of the 28 Ulto— enclosing the following receipts — Viz Rect of Lieut Lake Cameron for his recruit for [undecipherable] 8 Nov 1798 which being enlisted in board the Brig Frigate Constitution .................. 76.24 ditto of L^t [undecipherable] Brittain, for his pay for [undecipherable] 30 Nov [undecipherable] of ditto of his resignation .... ex— ditto of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in your February [undecipherable] for his pay for Dec^t 1798 ............. 3—                                                               76.24