Accountant's Office October 21, 1797 M^r John King Contractor Elizabethtown New Jersey Sir Your account & voucher for supplies furnished the 11 Reg^t of Infantry at Elizabethtown in the month of Sep^t 1799 amounting from statement to D^s 970.9 have been examined the sum of D^s 535. 31 [undecipherable: Cents] being in the vouchers nor rations or more explains in the annexed statement, which if proves to be satisfactory of not, your acq^t must be obtained by an appeal to the comptroller of the Treasury. — the balance of D^rs 434.77 in your favor [undecipherable] in a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] which you will receive from the Secretary of the Treasury. Sam^l B^d [undecipherable: 1038] Account of difference stated with John King contractor Reg^t: amount of his account is D^rs 970.17 from which is deducted. 1030 meals being for as many rations overcharged in Numbers N^o 1. 2. 3. 4 &55 for rations before given a D^s 10.5 Amo^t of Vouchers N^o 5 & 11 now returned they being for fuel furnished the Officers of the 11 Reg^t from the rate of their supplying to 30 Sep^t [undecipherable] a. 197. 44 transportation charged 5 p^r C^t. 31. 32 239. 31 [undecipherable] 535.31 The Secretary of War having decided that the ration. "lines for distributing fuel are merely auxiliary to "it the quantity that may be allowed when actually "supplying, rations to be construed and was not rations "is give no intitlement to officers for any fuel they have "not drawn by being in packages or detached or absent "on service, or any other cause whatever." Amo^t of vouchers N^o6 now returned being so much paid sundry debts of Accounts which his already been