[28] Miller Smith &nt Boston, Accountants Office March 12. 1800 Sir Your accounts & vouchers for rations afloat grant to the armorer of Springfield armory in Oct. Nov. & Dec. 1799, the balance amounting of your statement to $[undecipherable].13 have been examined & found correct which sum you will therefore receive from [undecipherable] dep[t] upon your granting the necessary Rec[t]. Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] James Miller Esq[undecipherable] March 13^th. 1800 D[undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the master [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir In the number of the vouchers presented by you to this Office on the part of the Quarter master General I have [undecipherable] one, numbered 17, for a payment made in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the transportation from [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of one barrel one half [undecipherable] two [undecipherable] & one trunk; assigned to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the 10 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] $39 amounting to Thirty Two dollars thirty [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. The object of this communication is to be informed whether the articles transported were the property of the public, or that of the Officer's and if the latter, whether any existing regulations in the Quarter Master Department, have governed you in the payment. Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Julius Orne Esq[undecipherable] March 13. 1800 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] map[undecipherable] Sir I have received your letter of the 4 Inst[ant] the contents of which has been communicated to the Secretary of War with whom it rests to make you the answer required in account of your compensation of his thanks [undecipherable].