Jedediah Huntington Collector, New London, C^o Accountants Office October 29^th 1799 Sir I have received under a blank cover a receipt of John & Amasa Woodward for one hundred seventeen Dollars & 90^c. which sum will be entered as expend^d on the 26^th to your Credit, on the Books of this Office. In taking act in future for monies forwarded from this Department, I have to request that you will recur there as set forth in my letter of advice; when for a ration^s to state it in the receipt as for any other purpose, as set forth on the letter accompanying the remittance; I will also wish in forwarding the receipt that you would mention in your letter the particulars thereof; as the receipt accompanys the account to the Treasury Department, and the letter is the only document that is on file at this Office, which will shew the receipt having been forwarded. I am &^c W S John Hancock Jun^r 2^d Reg^t A&E Harpersville V^o October 28^th 1799 Sir The Contractor Jones daily having Receipted at this Office for Rations given by your order to a [undecipherable: absent] man and not appears the object of this is therefore to require his name; & at the same time to request you to obviate a like question in future by inserting on your returns the names of the Officers Commanding. I am &^c W S