Faith & P^t Hussap Esq^r Accountants Office Atto^y Portland M^e Sept^r 8^th 1799 Sir I received your letter on the 20 ult^o enclosing Lieu^t William States receipt for $74 for, which will be entered on the Books of this Office. I am &^c W^m S Capt Russell Bissell Sept^r 8^th 1799 Middletown Con^t Sir The Muster Day, & receipt rolls enclosed in your letter of the 3^d July ult^o have been examined & found correct in the amount, Vouchers being Forty four dollars & War and accordingly be placed to your credit on the Books of this Off^e On examination of your account here^t transmit^d to this Office for Settlement, there appears the following items which cannot be admitted - Viz^t Amount of extra expenses on superintending the building of Blockhouses, Stores, Magazines, fortifications at Brunswick, the extra said to be given by Coll^o Burbeque, not being sufficient to authorige the claim D^s222.18 Amount said to have been paid Jodex Col^s & Ridway, M^r Armstrongs & John Peas, no receipt of the parties appearing 92.41 Amount of your expenses from Detroit to Greenbird, inadmissable, it being considered that the provisions allow^d to an Officer is in full compensation of his entire expenses 77.44 D^s 391.33 Should you be posses^d of documents that will do away any of