[484] of the said executors the states of [their?] deceased & the names of such as are resident, in order that the necessary stoppages may be made from their pay as it becomes due — as soon as this is ascured, you account will be admitted to the amount now subject to your view — Sam R[undecipherable] J H S John Sitty Esq^r Accountants Office Dep^t Baltimor &c January 25^th 1800— Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of forty dollars which you will please pay to Baptist [undecipherable] nonage taking his duplicate receipt arising from payments for the use applications thereon being for five months hire of a room occupied by Mr John Thomas [undecipherable] Esquire at Fort McHenry, agreeably to his certificate dated the 1^st October to 1 December 1799— Sam A [undecipherable] A Chancellor Esq^r Maj^r January 24^th 1800 Sir In settlement of Sam^l [undecipherable] account as [undecipherable] it appears you have drawn on him for [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] for the Clothing of your Recruits I must therefore refer you for [undecipherable] to the 22 Dist of the Act of the 3^d [undecipherable] last entitled "An Act for the better organising of the Troops of the United States for other purposes" which reads that the Commanding Officer shall if necessary cause the boots, coats, overcoats, [undecipherable] be altered & new made so as the better to fit them to the men to whom advanced; for defraying which he shall cause to be deducted & stoppages out of the pay of such [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not exceeding