that his future Accounts/Requisitions should also be made to the Pay master General. The request contained in your letter relative to a supply of blank muster & Pay Rolls will be attended to by M^rMahon to whom the letter has been forwarded — Sam^l L — M^r Tho^s Bowel Accountants Office Manchester Vir^a October 9^th 1799 Sir I have received your letter of the 19 ult on the subject of Rations Issued by Officers in 1794. If the claims you have are for these rations on the Militia Expedition they should have been presented to Colo^l Heath the agent of the Virginia Militia on that Expedition & his accounts & vouchers have since being lodged, & the amount forwarded by him to this Office this not having been done & these accounts being now finally settled I am at a loss to inform you when payment can now be made as the examination would be attended with great difficulty Sam^l L. W^m S Cap^t Michael Kalteisen October 25^th 1799 Fort Johnson S.C. Sir On examination of the accounts of William Boyce Contractor at Charleston, S.C. it appears that Major Toussard & yourself have drawn double rations for the month of June last as commandant at Fort Johnson. — The act of the 3^d March 1797 says "that no such Officer, whilst commanding a separate Post, there shall be allowed him the number of Rations to which they would otherwise be entitled." It is therefore understood that the stationary have