[470] Accountants Office January 7^th 1800 Major Gen: [undecipherable] Wilmington Delaware Sir I have received your letter dated the 3^d [undecipherable] in answer thereto have to [undecipherable] you that so far as regards the other [undecipherable] of Officers engaged in the recruiting service, they are to be guided by the rules laid down in the recruiting [undecipherable] — The construction given to the Act of Congress of the 3^d March 179[undecipherable] allowing double rations to each Officer while Commanding a Separate Post — is that the Commanding Officer of a Seperate Post [undecipherable] quarters is the one entitled to the allowance of additional rations, and not the Commandant or Commanding Officer of a District — [undecipherable initials] M.W. Tindall from [undecipherable: Brucksburgh?] January 9, 1800 Sir The settlement of your account of supplies to the Troops on a more [undecipherable] is required for want of the following vouchers which (if not in your possession) you will obtain from the officers & forward to this Office, & not — All the original Provision returns, upon which your [undecipherable] rations to [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] attachment, as are required as a document on the [undecipherable] returns and the Certificates of that Officer [undecipherable] in figures the number of rations delivered. The original returns upon which the 200 Rations were issued to [undecipherable] General's [undecipherable] Statements You must show by what authority you are entitled to more than [undecipherable] 16 back for [undecipherable] rations delivered, between 1^st January & 30 April 1799 — otherwise the additional sum of [undecipherable] charged by you on these rations will be [undecipherable] — In most of the articles charged on your account appears to have been furnished by [undecipherable] it will be necessary for you to make [undecipherable]