Griffith M^cRee Esq^r Collector, Wilmington N^o 65. Accountants Office October 2^d 1799 Sir I have recieved your letter dated the 13 ult^o enclosing a Muster Roll for the Pay of the Troops Stationed at Fort Johnston N.C. under the command of Lieu^t Patrick C Harris for the month of June 1799. the amount thereof found receipted, being four hundred & four Dollars & 46/100 will be placed to the credit of your account on the books of this Office. You will be carefull in making payments to Soldiers who make their marks that their names be endorsed in one or more Musters, this has been omited in the Muster roll above mentioned & all^o admited in the Drum & Instrument it will be required in all future cases. I am Y^r H.S. Mill^r J. Smith L^t Coll. 12 Reg^t October 3^d 1799 Sir Among the accounts of M^r Colfax Contractor is a charge from you of having rec^d 1684 compleat rations without stating the number of men command^g Officers Musicians & Privates by whom consumed, it is therefore required that you will in future remedy this defect & to enable me now to make the proper examination you will please to inclose as soon as possible all the original rations upon which these rations were granted. I am much surprised to find among the accounts of the Contractor so unprecedented a thing as two rations each for four Months advance of rations to all the Officers of the 12 Reg^t & indeed for more Officers than had really complied their appointments, the extreme impropriety of this conduct