I have in reply to your request respecting bread to inform you that no allowance is made for that articles at this Office [undecipherable] Sam V: M.S. Samuel Meredith Esq^r Accountants Office Sir August 4^th 1799 Inclosed is the recept of John [undecipherable] 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 [Continental?] expences of the War Dep^t to which Warrant the rec^t is to be annexed agreably to directions from the Comptroller of the Treasury Sam [undecipherable]: M.S. [Answered] Griffith F.M. White Esq^r July 30 1799 Wilmington N.C. Sir I have rec^d your letter of the [undecipherable] Instant enclosing a Muster & Pay Role of the Troops Stationed at Fort [Johnston?] N.C. under the command of [undecipherable] Colo C. Harris for June 1799 which have been examined [undecipherable] the following points for [undecipherable] the result — Amt: Pay Roll of Lieut Thomas [undecipherable]: D^rs 426.48 add Pay of Sert: [undecipherable] for June 1799 [undecipherable]: [undecipherable]: [Sarah?] Thompson [Madam?] for [undecipherable]: This sum should calculated on pay of John Robertson Jour [undecipherable] 18.2 leaving a balance of pay of L^t C. Harris to D^rs 444.50 be settled in personal account: 30: & this sum from pay of D[undecipherable] Holland and the am^t of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for advancing him: 1.28 31.28