Capt And M'Mary Accountants Office New Brunswick N.J. July 1^st 1799 Sir I have [undecipherable] your letter of the 18^th and have [undecipherable] an account [undecipherable] your [undecipherable: Pay?] & Subsistence from the [undecipherable] you were last [undecipherable] made up to the 30 June now leaving a balance of 189 [undecipherable] due the United States [undecipherable: agreeably?] for [undecipherable: a being?] [undecipherable]. From your representations the Secretary of War has directed that an [undecipherable: allowance?] equal to what you [undecipherable: require?] may be [undecipherable]. You will accordingly receive the sum of Seventy dollars from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the War Office for which you will [undecipherable] your duplicate [undecipherable: receipt?] and you will be [undecipherable: charged?] & held accountable for that sum in addition to the balance above [undecipherable] making in all 230 [undecipherable] Doll — [undecipherable] &c W.S.