[Page 170] &form a Pay Bill for the difference of Pay which may be due to this same man — Turn &c. W.S. You will receive herewith Blanks Recap Rules — Lieut. [undecipherable: Fitch &] Cleomery                          July 20. 1799 N York Sir     In the accounts rendered by William [undecipherable] Contractor for the Port of New York, New [undecipherable] &c there is a charge of Dols 220. Dls for Hospital Stores [undecipherable: supplied] at Bedlows Island — the account of which is certified by you, and it appears of the Certificate that you was an Inspector of the Branches on which the Issues were made. As I conceive this account to be of a more oeconomical nature, I have to [undecipherable: request] you will [undecipherable: forward] to this Office as early as possible three original returns, [undecipherable] as well as all other original returns in your [undecipherable: possession] for [undecipherable: rations] of [undecipherable: issues] at Bedlows Islands in order to enable me to make such an examination as will convince me of the propriety of such charges before I admit them for the credit of the Contractor. [undecipherable] W.S. Major Artemas [undecipherable: Dooge]                          July 20. 1789 New York Sir     I have to request information from you on the subject of Stoppages if there which Officers are on the [undecipherable: role] of receiving Pay for, from the [undecipherable: Sutlers] at [undecipherable] and its vicinity. It appears to me that if [undecipherable: Butler] [undecipherable] is