Capt James Pillet Port Pay Accountants' Office July 13 1799 Sir I have rec^d. your letter of the 10^th & 11^th Inst^s. the former enclosing your Substitute acct for Apr^l. May June. In consequence of your objections to the charge of having drawn your Muster without leave for the months of May, an examination of the Substitutes acct has again taken place, after is the charge from proving correct, that the inclosed copy of provision Returns must remove every doubt you entertain on this Subject — In answer to M^r. Barbaras observations he is right before as relates to his returns being made out for May — but he should also have informed you that these returns were go D^t. Stewart I under standing are by yourself, on one of which appears he now be attend to — As a view of former^ly of the 1^st Marchs last must I reamtion from some of the component parts of this return this final has of course been raised in the same proportion your account has therefore been credited $ 16.8^t (a multy Quarters (the current price at New Yorke) making the cost to be forty four Dollars & 1/100 from which Doll^s 8^t 1/100 the over reditment has been deducted, leaving a balance of Dolls 35⁹⁸/₁₀₀ which you will receive from Nicholas Fishe Supervisor New York upon granting the necessary receipt — Sam^l H[?] W.S.