to waiste waste nor disposed to be restrained within Planter allowance — No person who has travellid through the lower parts of Virginia &maryland will say that a man & Horse can subsist on 1/9 dollar p day, when the Hors alone costs 1/3 — Signed John Macky. Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r                         Accountants Office Jap^y 4^th of Mo: 5                                    June 27. 1799 Sir M^r Normand Smith of Hartford Connecticu^t has been paid at this Office for the manufacturing of the following Storemus accoutrements which have ben rec^d at Valued in good order by John Harris militia store keeper — 139 Saddles with leather stirrups Hooks & Bolts     @Pce     1884 — 189 Bridles with Bites & Bradoons                    1¹/Pce     330.73 189 Surcingles Straps                                    2/           400.37 189 Pair Holsters with flaps & Straps               2¹/Pce     478.20 189 Valises                                                 2            378 — 189 near Valises Straps                                ¹/Pce        113.60 188 Cartouche Boxes                                    ¹/Pce        116.36 119 Nose Bags                                            ¹/Pce         44.50 117 Stable Halters                                        ¹/Pce       115.34                                                                                 3355. 2 20 Boxes for packing the above            @98 Cts. a — 15 [undecipherable] [undecipherable]                     2¹/Pce 47.50     26.50                amounting to     Dollers 3441. 52 for which you will please to have paid John Harris accounts on the Books of the Superinten^ts of military Stores — [signature] W. [undecipherable]