vouchers accompanied by the Settlement of Accompt being forwarded to this Office will be admitted to your Credit. This is not the proper channel through which to make application for receiving money. I understand from the Secretary of War that he has lately been advised that Genl. Wilkinson being temporarily absent, will of course make your applications when there shall be a necessity for a supply of money for that head of appropriation. this circumstance being temporarily about, it has become my duty to advise you — Sam^l [undecipherable] R. H. Robert Irvine Esq^r Secretary to the Commissr on [undecipherable] Subsist. Accountants Office July 25^th 1799 Sir I have receiv'd your letter dated 17 Inst. enclosing your account for pay, Foreign disbursements from 1 April to 30 June 1799 amounting to D^rs 38[undecipherable] for which sum you will receive from M^r Samuel Lewis draft, to whom you will be pleased to transmit your duplicates rec^ts for the Same, one of which to be filed in this Office. Sam^l [undecipherable] W. L. John Riley Esq^r [undecipherable] July 25^th 1799 Sir You will receive from the Treasurer of the United States, the Sum of two hundred [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] you which you will please to pay to Cap^t James Beatty [undecipherable] being pay for [undecipherable] of himself, L^t Henry McMath [undecipherable]