[98] Sam^l D Hodgdon Esq^r Accountants Office Superintend^t of June 24^th 1799 Military Stores You will receive enclosed, Abstract of Articles purchased by Joshua Cross agent of Distributions for [undecipherable] Mags[undecipherable: probable reading "Magazines"], in the months of April & May 1799, for the amount of which [he] will receive a credit in the Books of this Office for the [undecipherable] application whereby you are to hold him accountable You will please to acknowledge the receipt hereof with the abstract enclosed — Sam G M[undecipherable] The Secretary June 25^th 1799 of War Sir, I some time since rec^d from D. [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] commander at [undecipherable] a minute I say [undecipherable] of the men employed at their post on extra duty charging them for in addition to what is allowed by law 5 Dol^rs per month, and his own as Commissary & Quarter Master @ 30 [undecipherable] p^r m[onth], on this [undecipherable] there[?] [undecipherable] from the Board was [undecipherable], he has since written to me on the subject under date [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] me on which he informs me that by a letter rec^d from the Secretary of War in answer from him on that head, his account should be allowed. As respects his charge I mean to inform him that his pay as Quarter master of only appointed to a Regimental agreeable to law will be allowed, but that as Commissary cannot be adjusted through this Office— that if he has been appointed to those duties by the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]