[148.] M^r John Ring Contractor — Elizabeth Town New Jersey Accountants Office May 18^th 1799 Sir I have recev'd your letter of the 16^th Inst and the Secretary of War has directed an advance to you of One thousand dollars on acc^t of your supplies which Sum you will receive from Sam^l Davis, Clerk in the War Office, on granting your receipt therefor — I have accordingly to requested that you will immediately furnish your Accounts Vouchers up to the 1^st of the present month charging the sums you have made & crediting the pmt & hereafter your accounts are to be regularly send on the first [of] the Month preceding, at this Office — James [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Capt George Ingersoll West Point July 17^th 1799 Sir The Secretary of War has thought proper to grant a Warrant on your favour for four hundred seventy five Dollars & [undecipherable] being for pay of yourself [undecipherable] Company including Charlotte [undecipherable] matrons for the months of June [undecipherable] for subsistence of yourself & Lieut [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] April, May & June which you will dispose of accordingly noting the following stoppages which have been made in the Pay Roll — Sam^t Pay roll of your Station $ .......... Dols [undecipherable].33 Add am^t of your Subsistence acc^t ............. [undecipherable].96 d^o Subsistence acc^t of [undecipherable] ........... [undecipherable].21 Total — 165.11