[94] Leu^t Manning & Fisher Fort Oswego Sir Accountants Office June 27 1799 On the other side you have a copy of a letter received from the Secretary of War on the subject of your extra pay & that of the garrison under your command. As relates to the first it will be necessary for you to furnish a statement of the average number of rations [undecipherable] daily by you during the [undecipherable] you charge pay as [undecipherable] when this is received it will [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] to be allowed [undecipherable] to the Secretary of Wars letter. The other part of the [undecipherable] I now conceive to be [undecipherable] as the Secretary [undecipherable] mentions in his letter, for you [undecipherable] the authority for repairing the Works & Barracks at Fort Oswego that the Works & repairs it is expedient must be made by the Troops [undecipherable] to the Barracks with as little extra assistance as may be, [undecipherable] implying that the extra [undecipherable] must be [undecipherable] by persons not already in the [undecipherable] of the United States — Sam H. W.S. --- Manning & Fisher L^t Fort Oswego Sir June 26^t 1799 The Pay & Muster Rolls for the Detachment at Fort Oswego under your command for April & May 1799 have undergone examination & found correct, except the amount of 5 Dollars for pay of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in April, which has been [undecipherable] as he has been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] a [undecipherable]