note you accountable for the number of rations which you may have received at the barracks since that day — Sam: B^d M^d Griffiths S M'Kee Esq^r Accountant's Office Wilmington N.C. March 7^th 1800 N^o Sir the Secretary of State has favored me an order in your favor for two thousand five hundred dollars on account of the Transportation on Rations fair, which have you write received from the Treasurer of the United States on forwarding the necessary receipts making yourself accountable — Sam: B^d M^d Caleb Swan Esq March 7^th 1800 Sir You are hereby directed to hold [undecipherable] hundred thousand [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] time accountable for the sum of fifty two Dollars & [undecipherable] being the rest of 322 rations issued by him for the months of September & October 1799 as Commandant [undecipherable] his [undecipherable] as Major [undecipherable] to which he is not entitled — Sam: B^d M^d The Secretary of War March 6, 1800 Sir [John Woodward Esq^r] Agent of Transportation for the defence of the [undecipherable] and Master of New London having [undecipherable] his accounts to this office for settlement on which he charges two dollars a day for superintending the affairs of [Fort Trumbull] [undecipherable] on the amount of his disbursements. The Secretary of War would therefore be pleased to direct what compensation is to be allowed this [undecipherable] for his [actual] service — Sam: B^d M^d