ment & when the articles are delivered the acknowledgment of the commanding officer of the corps therein, shall be your voucher — for your future government in making out these, & taking the necessary vouchers I enclose you the regulations of the Secretary's office, to which I shall expect the strictest conformity — In closing your vouchers in the several abstracts I wish you to be more particular in mentioning the several items of which they may be composed. Observing also that should any supplies be furnished to any Recruits or Troops other than the 13 Reg^t to make out separate abstracts Sam^l Hodgⁿ W L Jedediah Huntington Elizur McDonalds Accountants Office October 26, 1799 Sir Enclosed is my list of the rates to Maj^r Elijah House store, Contractors, which I expressly left open for your perusal, after which you will please to transmit it. I wish you particularly to observe that they now owe the United States the sum of D^rs 6667. 22, by which circumstance you will regulate your future advances — Sam^l Hodgⁿ W L Major Dan^l Bradley Staunton N. s. October 25^th 1799 Sir I have rec^d your letter of the 16 Instant together with the muster & Pay Rolls, therein mentioned, which have been sent agreeably to my letter of the 12^th Inst^t to Colo^l Hamtramck Reg^t Pay master General, whose duty it is in the first instance to receive for examination all army accts, & to whom you