[182] materials accompanied by the [undecipherable] & receipt being forwarded to this Office will be admitted to your [undecipherable]. This is not the proper channel through which to make application for advancing money. I understand you [undecipherable] Secretary of War that he has lately been [undecipherable] that travels to Major General [undecipherable] you will of course make your applications when Should there be a necessity for a supply of money for that head of appropriations, the [undecipherable] being temporarily absent he has become my duty to advise you — Sam^o [undecipherable] [left column:] [undecipherable] Dear [undecipherable] Secretary to the Comm[undecipherable] in Chief [right column:] Accountants Office July 25^th 1799 Sir I have receiv'd your letter dated 17 [undecipherable] enclosing your account for [undecipherable] Foreign Subsistence from 1 April to 30 June 1799 amounting to D[undecipherable] 31 [undecipherable] you, which ever you will receive from M[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to whom you will be pleased to transmit your duplicates [undecipherable] for the same, one of which to be filed in this Office. Sam^o [undecipherable] A.L. John Riley Esq^r Attorney July 25^th 1799 Sir You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States, the Sum of two hundred [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which you will please to pay to Cap^t James [undecipherable] being pay [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Lt Henry M. [undecipherable]