[Docket on cover: Colonel Wilkins / 27 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / Recd — / [circled: 233½] / [diagonal notation: undecipherable]] 27t^h [undecipherable] Sir M^r. Fisher is [undecipherable] out under the direction of [undecipherable] — I wish to be informed by you whether he is to settle with you or me for his disbursements previous to this period — If you settle with him regulate the Charge of five hundred Dollars furnished to him for that I wish not to be charged with it — If [undecipherable] to settle with him, please — inform me of the time of his engagement & the terms under which he is to be paid your mo[undecipherable] Col^o. Hodgdon [signature] Wilkins