errors which oblige them to incurr expenses on the [undecipherable] at places where there are no military posts. I am &c [undecipherable initials] Joshua Orne Esq^r Accountants Office Marblehead M^ss July 22 1799 Sir I have rec^d your letter dated the 18 accomp^d by the accounts therein mentioned. they will be placed under examination and the result will be communicated to you in course. The temporary absence of the Accountant will account for the communication coming from me &c I am yr P.H.A. Cap^t John M^cClallan Albany New York July 19 1799 Sir Conformable to my letter of this morning you will receive from Saint Louis Marks [undecipherable] office a [undecipherable] for five hundred [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] being the amount of your pay & Subsistence for May & June As a law of Congress of the 2^d [undecipherable] hath made a reduction from some of the component parts of the [undecipherable] the force has of course been reduced in the [undecipherable] proportion — the [undecipherable] force at New York since that fund has been [undecipherable] which you will be pleased to attend to in making out your future [undecipherable] returns &c I am &c WL