M^r James Butler Contractor, Baltimore, Maryland Accountants Office Novem^r 13 1799 Sir The generality of your accounts & vouchers for your supplies in Maryland, receit at this Office on the 8 Instant, by M^r Wesley Baker, are of so complicated & informal a nature as to render it absolutely necessary for you to withdraw them for the purpose of correcting the objections & stating them agreably to the form with which you have been furnished in — An amount now appears in the statement of your account of rations furnished at Harre De Grace, where the rations allowed, hereto breaks for the hardware charge is complete altho' it does not appear that the rations so drawn were in any instance completed — Sam^l &c H.C. --- Jno^s Thomson Esq^r Boston November 18 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of seventy six dollars & [undecipherable], to be by you paid to Walter Smith, contractor, being for the balance of rations & fuel supplied the commissaries at Springfield in July August & Sept — which sum you will please to pay upon his granting you the necessary receipt — Sam^l &c H.C.