L^t Sam^l Bⁿ Dyson? Fort M^cHenry Accountants Office September 21^st 1799 Sir I have received your letter of the 16 ins^t enclosing your Recruiting account & account current which have been examined & after making sundry deductions the leaves a balance due the United States of Ninety six Dollars 91 C^ts as will appear by the enclosed account of differences You will pay little & I mention the amount was then taking these receipts forward them to this Office with any others you may be able to obtain, that will do away any of the above balance Sam^l B^d W S The Secretary of War September 22^d 1799 Sir The Account Office having drawn double rations on the returns of Garrisons & &^c I request to be furnished with a list of the superior posts within the same, & the names of the Officers respectively commanding thereat who are entitled to the double rations allowed by the [undecipherable] section of the act of the 3 March 1799 intituled "an act to amend & repeal in part the act intituled 'an act to ascertain & fix the military establishment of the United States'" Sam^l B^d W. S.