[160] M^r George Ingersoll West Point, Sir Accountants Office July 19^th 1799 I have rec^d your letter of the 13 Inst^t enclosing receipt list of your Company for May last; the amount thereof receipted being D^rs 375.13 will be passed to your favour on the Books of this Office. You have not mentioned the reasons by some why you have not paid the several places whose pay was remitted to you amounting to the Sum of $^d 19 Give this you will please to do against the name of each; that I may make the proper entries on the Books of this Office. Enclosed you will receive your receipt rolls agreeably to your request. James W S Capt. John McAllister Pay U S B: Navy Sir July 19^th 1799 I have rec^d your letter of the 15 July Inst^t enclosing your account of Pay Subsistence for the Month of May June and July, also an acc^t of 100 Yrs D^rs for expence whilst obtaining a funerl. memorial at New York— Your claim for subsistence for May & June will be remitted to you— Your claim for expences does not in my opinion come within the regulations for extra allowance to Officers— I return you the Same, as inadmissible, these regulations [copy of which is inclosed] proves only for expences to the Officer who are detailed from one Military Post to another and