I have in reply to your request respecting [undecipherable] to inform you that no allowance is made for that article at this Office a? Sam V: M·S· --- Samuel Meredith Esq^r Accountants Office Sir August 4, 1799 Inclosed is the receipt of John Falconham Collector of the Customs for Savannah in Georgia amounting to Twenty Two Dollars & fifty Cents also a Warrant for that amount, drawn for the Incidental Contingent expences of the War Dep^t to which Warrant the rec^d is to be annexed agreeably to directions from the Comptroller of the Treasury — Sam^l H: M·S· --- Griffith J. McRee Esq^r July 30 1799 Wilmington N·C· Sir I have rec^d your letter of the 9 Instant enclosing a Muster & Pay Roll of the Troops Stationed at Fort Johnson M·C· under the command of L^t Colonel C Harris for June 1799 which have been examined I beg following points to the the result — Am^t Pay Roll of Lieu^t Harris detach^m D^rs 426 95 add Pay of Serg^t [undecipherable] for June 1799 [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Sarah Thompson Madison for d. b — This sum should calculated on pay of John Robertson Jun^r 13 2 leaving a balance of pay of L^t P·L· Harris to D^rs 444 50 be settled in personal [undecipherable] 30 — at this sum from pay of Dan^l Holland and the am^t of [undecipherable] Promises [undecipherable] for advancing him — 1 28 31 83