Lieut & P^r Stewart Esq^r Accountants Office Otisville Portland M^e Sept^r 8^th 1799 Sir I received your letter on the 20^th ult^o enclosing Lieut & William Stokes receipt for $74 for, which will be entered on the Books of this Office. I am &^c W S Capt Russell Bissell Sep^t 8^th 1799 Middletown Con^t Sir The Muster Pay, & receipt Rolls enclosed in your letter of the 3^d July ult^o have been examined & found correct; the the amount therefore being Forty four dollars & Two cents accordingly be placed to your credit on the Books of this Off^e On examination of your account here & transmit^d to this Office for Settlement, there appear 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 rates said to be given by Gen^l Wilkinson not being sufficient to exchange the Same D^s 222.12 Amount said to have been paid Tobias Cole & Ridaway, M^cArmstrong & John Bates, no receipt of the parties appearing 92.41 Amount of your expenses from Detroit to Greenfield, Inadmissible; it being considered that the provisions allowed to an Officer is in full compensation of his actual expenses 77.80 D^s 392.33 should you be posses'd of documents that will do away any of