The deductions on the foregoing of money paid to officers on loan or there [undecipherable] to be most correctly to the amount of the drawing of which was — the regulations for abstracting Bills are merely directory as to the quantity that may be allowed when absolutely necessary & cannot be construed & was not intended to even an Enticement to Officers for any post they have not served by being no [undecipherable] or situated in service or any other cases— Timothy Darling, Major et al. Providence, R. I. Accountant's Office, March 4, 1800 Sir Among the accounts of the Contractor John J. [undecipherable] are exhibited the accounts of M^r Evans [undecipherable] and of Oliver [undecipherable] apparently two contractor accounts at Savannah & Providence in which I discover many charges in the ration master & Hospital Departments of an extraordinary nature some of which will be [undecipherable] but cannot now tell how far they may be [undecipherable: settled] [undecipherable] for want of all the original returns which you acknowledge to hold in your possession & which you will therefore please forwards me— By the general provisions returns which you have [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] several of the Officers as well as generally have [undecipherable] for servants which apparently [undecipherable] not or if you had, they were not only [undecipherable] more (for more other [undecipherable]) I have therefore to require, should that not be that case, that you will certify to me that you have never while in service [undecipherable] your signature to any return in which were included returns for servants other than only [undecipherable] & that the two [undecipherable] have never drawn their subsistence money in on [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] Now drawn for, in order that the returns now before me [undecipherable] by you, may have the proper amount [undecipherable] to the credit of the