[Page 53] I therefore hope that the receipts of such measures will be done away by your paying the balance as divided and transmitting the receipt of the Supervisor — Jan 8^th No Simmon [unclear] Capt Baldenbrown Carlisle Penn^a Accountant's Office June 11 1799 Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6 Inst^t together with the vouchers which have undergone examination your pay is found correct, but as the Cantonment price of rations at Carlisle from 1 January to 3^d March was but 16 Cents those from that time 18 Cents Mullen's substitution has consequently been made from your charge of subsistence of nine million & from leaving a balance in your favor of Two hundreds ninety eight Dollars & [undecipherable] which sum has been paid to John Davy Esq^r agreeably to your order — I take this opportunity of remarking to you that by the accounts of Mess^rs Humble Contractor now under examination at this Office — it appears that the Company under your command have drawn pretty more than their allowance of fuel as established by the several suitable Rules & regulations for the subsistence of full 41 men's acco^t of which I presume you have been furnished with from the War Office — the charges for wood stands thus — Viz^t 24 Cords to your Comp^y in January 1799 — 137^th " " " Feby & march — 14 " " " on the terms 207½ Cords to your Comp^y for the first the first quarter of the present Year — which was very great excess will furnished by you in favor of this [apparently] extraordinary consumption you will be held receivable for the value of the quantity redeemed. Jan 8^th [unclear]