[Stat^o M^cState?] Accountants Office Portland M^o? August 7. 1799 Sir Until I recived your letter of the 31 Ult^o though your claims & those that arose from arrear actually disbursed by you for that purpose — but as you inform me you have never expended except for the money which you demand, and as the allowance (if granted) would be unprecedented I have therefore wholly excluded the charge of D^m 40. 25 from the present Settlement, subject to this proviso that should the Secretary of War think proper to make the allowance hereafter you will be at liberty to resume your demands — On the present Settlement of your accounts you have been allowed as follows — For your extra pay as Surgeon Mate at West Point from 15 June 1797 to 31 Sept following @ 10 Dollars p^r month, by order of the Secretary of War is D^m 33. 33 for this sum paid for passage of yourself from West Point. . . . . . . . . 33 — for this sum paid for carrying your truvant Baggage from Newport to Portland 7— making in the whole. . . . . . Dollars 74. 33 Which sum will be paid you by [undecipherable] T. F. [undecipherable] Settlement upon your granting them the necessary rec^ts &c Your ob^t H J S