[30] Caleb Swan Esq^r Pay master Gen^l. Accountants Office March 14^th 1800 Sir Capt. J. W. Patterson of the [undecipherable: 1^st] [undecipherable] Regt. has drawn 2 Rations for each of 24 Recruits on the 6 June 1799 on separate Returns, all entitled but to 1 Ration each. Now will Thompson Reid be held accountable for Two dollars & [undecipherable]/100, being the [undecipherable] of 24 Rations overdawn as above, at the Contract price of 14 Cents 1¾ Mills [undecipherable] Rations — I am &c [undecipherable: WS] William Crafts Esq^r. March 15^th 1800 Charleston S Carolina Sir The vouchers to your account which were [undecipherable: referred] on the last settlement, are now admitted, except your charges for [undecipherable: transportation], and your account being now adjusted, a balance is found due by you to the United States of [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable]/100, which [undecipherable] you remain charged in the books of this office; still differing from your statement [undecipherable] two hundred [undecipherable] four Dollars & [undecipherable]/100, which will be explained by the amount of [undecipherable: differences] annexed.— The form of an [undecipherable: abstract] presented to you, was confined to the [undecipherable: columns] [undecipherable: monthly] [undecipherable] of your account, equally to your instructions, but when they are not [undecipherable: furnished] immediately after the end of the month, it is proper that your [undecipherable: accounts] should be carried to the time when it is transmitted embracing all payments made to or by you, & thereby showing how much of the public funds in your hands — [undecipherable] &c [undecipherable: WS]