are most solicitous neglected to procure the original bills of parcels whereby the cost of the articles purchased were to be ascertained — on whom the loss must of this letter has been examined the Subdeputee of the Office has been omitted — where articles have been placed from your own Mess fund, will be rejected that they are not charged above the market price. It will be necessary before the charges for building, &c. can be admitted to your credit that you procure & certificates especially to the reasons of the War. No article runs thus " no new Works or considerable repairs to existing works nor purchase of materials to a large amount can be permitted but by the special permission of the Secretary of War, or the Commanding General in which case an extract of that authority should accompany the charges; Officers doing either without first providing in this manner themselves are certainly reprehensible more particularly for drawing upon the Contractor. Herewith you will find a form for stating your next acct. to which you will please conform as near as may be. — Jam^s Y^r &c [Accountants Office February 7^th 1800] Jacob Schrick Esq^r a. m. d. Portsmouth N^o 16 Sir, Your letter of the 27 Ult^o enclosing your acct N^o 7 together with the acct of Isaac Walconer as Contractor for the State of New Hampshire, came only to hand, and the June 9^th 1797 act to the Contractor, in full for his supplies has been replied to your credit the sum of 70 d^s pence, charged by you on the account Appropriations of the Clothing, some amendments &c. after the 16^th Sep^t had been