[Page number: 93] [Fulths & Barber, Surveyors [Allecut Arm? our Subject of the [Genl?] Accountants Office March 6 1800 Your accounts & vouchers on supplies to Governm^t Recruits at Allecut from September to 31 December 1799 amounting [to] your Statement to D^rs41.16 has been examined & the following [undecipherable]: Errors in charging is quite obvious — 10^th this does not admit Debate, in lieu of 3 tricts of salt assumpted because the Act of Genl has directed that the Regulations for distributing Salt are clearly directory as to the quantity that may be allowed when absolutely necessary & cannot be combined I was not intended to give an inducement to Officers for any Spirits they have not earned by long American [undecipherable: fatigues], whether on Service or from any other cause whatever — I have therefore deducted the 8 dollars & the remaining therein 6.16 leaving a balance in your favor of 1 Dollars 24.21 which you you will receive [from?] the Agent Mountjoy— [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: thro'] the deduct upon you granting the necessary receipts — Jam^s M^c M/L --- Edward Carrington Esq^r Richmond Virginia March 10^th 1800 I transmit you letter of this 3^d Instant enclosing D^r Helms morgans Receipt for twenty dollars which, make be found on the Books of this Office — Jam^s M^c [initialed]