note you accountable for the number of rations which you may have consumed at the barracks from thence — Sam: [?] M. [?] Griffiths S. M'Kee Esq. Accountant's Office Wilmington N.C. March 7^th. 1800 No. Sir the Secretary [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] favor for two thousand five hundred dollars on account of the Transportation on [undecipherable], which have you [undecipherable] to the Treasurer of the United States on forwarding the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] making yourself accountable — Sam: [undecipherable] M. [undecipherable] Caleb Swan Esq. : March 7. [undecipherable] 1800 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] You are hereby [undecipherable] to hold [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] accountable for the Sum of fifty two dollars & ten being the cost of [undecipherable] rations drawn by him for the months of September & October 1799 as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his subsistence as Major [undecipherable] to which he is not entitled — Sam: [undecipherable] M. [undecipherable] The Secretary of War Sir March 6. 1800 John [undecipherable] Esq. Agent of Transportation for the defense of the [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of New London [undecipherable] [undecipherable] his accounts in this Office for [undecipherable] in which he [undecipherable] two dollars a day for [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] altho [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as the amount of his [undecipherable]. The Secretary of War would therefore be pleased to [undecipherable] what [undecipherable] it is to be allowed [undecipherable] Government for his [undecipherable] service — Sam: [undecipherable] M. [undecipherable]