undersigned examination [undecipherable] found to differ from your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] N° of difference [undecipherable] for your government, the [undecipherable] found are [undecipherable] from [undecipherable]ters [undecipherable] you will [undecipherable] from Nicholas Fish Esq. [undecipherable] New York [undecipherable] your necessary receipt for the [undecipherable]. The rations [undecipherable] by you while at the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at Madison Monument cannot be [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] only allows double rations to an Officer [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] :-) James [undecipherable] N.S. Nicholas Fish Esq. Accountants Office New York July 13, 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] forty dollars [undecipherable], which you will please to pay to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] taking the necessary receipts for the [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on him on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] account. — James [undecipherable] N.S. Direct [undecipherable] July 17, 1799 Pay [undecipherable] 13 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] New Haven Conn. Sir I have received your letter dated the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] its [undecipherable] relative to the directions under which you made your payments. It is [undecipherable] here that when an advance takes place from this Office for any particular object that the money is to be applied [undecipherable] in that manner pointed out in the Instructions which accompany [undecipherable]