advances on acct whether on Contract or otherwise, must appear on your Accounts transmitted to this Office for settlement as no charges not for a payment in full can be admitted. Sam &c M: S. L^t Robert M'Osborne Accountants Office 1 Aug^d &c &c &c July 2^d 1799 &c The Pay Role of the Detachment of [undecipherable] troops [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] under the comd of Cap^t [undecipherable] has been examined & the Sum of [undecipherable] then Dollars found and thereof differing from your Statement Dollars 30.66 arising from the pay of the following [undecipherable] having been [undecipherable] until the [undecipherable] of the Comptroller be known, and tho it is [undecipherable] whether the United States have been at any expence in pursuing them Thomas Ivory, artificer . . . . . Dollars 16. 66 William Walker, [undecipherable] . . . . . " 7. — Herman Viles, [undecipherable] . . . . . " [undecipherable]. — Dollars 30. 66 Sam &c M: S. M^r Norman Smiths July 1. 1799 Hartford County Sir Your acct for manufacturing 189 doz of [undecipherable] Accoutrements dating & balance to be due you of Dolls 46. [undecipherable] has been examined and [undecipherable] the following [undecipherable]: [undecipherable] Boxes & & [undecipherable] halters [undecipherable] short of the number charged by you actually for the [undecipherable] of this [undecipherable] Store Keeper at this place [undecipherable] 46 Contract as 1 [undecipherable] leaving a balance on your