[continuation from previous page] errors which oblige them to incur expenses on the [undecipherable] and at places where there are no military posts. from y[ou]r W[undecipherable] Joshua Orne Esq^r Accountant's Office Marblehead M^ss July 22 1799 Sir I have rec^d your letter dated the 18 accomp[anied] 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 one [undecipherable] from y[ou]r P.H. Cap^t John McAllister July 19^th 1799 Albany New York Sir Conformable to my letter of this morning, you will receive from Saint Louis Marks [undecipherable] office [undecipherable] $[undecipherable] for the hundred [undecipherable] Dollars & [undecipherable] being the amount of your pay & subsistence for May & June. As a law of Congress of the 2^d March last makes a reduction from some of the compound funds of the [undecipherable] the force has of course been reduced in the [undecipherable] fund — The [undecipherable] force at New York since that fund has been [undecipherable] bounds [undecipherable] permits which you will be pleased to attend to in making out your future [undecipherable] [undecipherable] &c. from y[ou]r W[undecipherable]