Lieut. Manning S. Fischer Accountants Office Fort Oswego June 27 1799 Sir 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: probable reading: drawn] daily to you [undecipherable: probable reading: through] the period you charge pay as Commanding when this is received it will decide on the compensation to be allowed agreeably to the decision of above letter. The other part of the [undecipherable] I shall [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] as the Secretary [undecipherable] mentions in his letter for your [undecipherable] the authority for repairing the Works & Barracks at Fort Oswego that the Works & repairs it is requested will be made by the Troops [undecipherable] to the Barracks with as little extra assistance as may be [undecipherable] clearly implying that the extra [undecipherable] must [undecipherable] by persons not already in the [undecipherable: probable reading: Forces] of the United States — Sam H. [undecipherable] Manning Fischer June 26 1799 L^t. Fort Oswego Sir 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 3 Dollars for pay of Shannon [undecipherable] in April, which has been [undecipherable] as he has been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — leaving 49