[191] Obadiah Huntington Esq^r Accountants Office New London Con^t July 27 1799 Sir The treasurer of the United States will remit you the Sum of Two hundred [undecipherable] three Dollars & Five [undecipherable] or balance due to Phineas Emmons Contractor, for rations furnished the [undecipherable] under the command of Capt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at Litchfields Con^t [undecipherable]; May 1^st Jan^y 1799, which [undecipherable] you will please to pay to the said Phineas Emmons taking his receipt for the same, out of which you will please transmit [for/to] this Office [undecipherable] Jno [undecipherable] [undecipherable] W. [undecipherable] Doctor Hugh Scott July 27 1799 Pittsburg Sir Your account of Medicines furnished the [undecipherable] at Fort [undecipherable] between 8 June^t & 18 Dec^r 1797, by order of the Commanding Officer amounting to [undecipherable] d^s has been referred by the Secretary of War to a Doctor whose duty it is to [undecipherable] examine acc^ts of this nature who has reported that taking into view the [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] which Doc^r [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] as Surgeon [undecipherable] up to the [undecipherable] that last Sum of [undecipherable] payment sixty [undecipherable] will be insufficient compensation — you will therefore [undecipherable] from Jonas Irvine Esq^r the said amount being [undecipherable] Dollars for which you will grant him the [undecipherable] receipt [undecipherable] Jno [undecipherable]