have decided by the Secretary of War that 'no new works or reasonable repairs to existing works or purchases of materials to a large amount can be permitted but by the express permission of the Secretary of War or the Commanding general, in which case an abstract of that authority should accompany the charges', in drawing out your abstracts, articles in the Quarter Master & Hospital Departments should be kept distinct and you should make it a invariable rule in all cases where a requisition is made upon you for stores in the foregoing Departments, to procure the Bills & recpts of the parties from whom you make the purchases [undecipherable] the articles are furnished from your own Store, proof must be required that they are not charged above the market price — When your first accounts were [undecipherable] at this Office you were furnished with forms of abstracts for your future regulations which, together with the instructions form'd a provision [undecipherable] I wish to observe when you again render your accounts — Sam G— [undecipherable initials] M[ess]^rs John & A Woodwards      Accountants Office New-London [Conn^t]                 February 9^th 1800 Sir The Secretary of War has[?] for settlement your accounts [undecipherable] in supplies to the troops at New-London & has furnished for the last quarter of the Year 1799, amounting [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] 1442 [undecipherable] from which have been [undecipherable] the sum of [undecipherable] being the whole of the Quarter master & Hospital [undecipherable], the vouchers now [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] for alterations or additional [undecipherable], you have