[42] Isaac White Aug^t 1797 Accountants Office Morris Camp near Elizabethtown New Jersey March 19^th 1800 Sir On the examination of the Contractors accounts for the State of New York I find that you have proved to [undecipherable] the Contractor Agent at Patterson your certificates in return [undecipherable] rations more than your Detachment was entitled to by your granting a general receipt without taking up the Subordinate rations [undecipherable] that you have before [undecipherable] been [undecipherable] by which means the United States have become here charged [undecipherable] this is so [undecipherable] that my Official duties will not allow me to overlook, of [undecipherable] therefore give me an unsatisfactory [undecipherable] for this apparent [undecipherable] conduct I shall be under the necessity of reporting you immediately to the Adjutant General for the purpose of having the proper investigation made in [undecipherable] I am &c [undecipherable] Rob^t Balling Livingston Lieu^t M[undecipherable] March 19^th 1800[undecipherable] Morris Camp[undecipherable] Sir On the examination of the Contractors accounts for the State of New York as appears by the general return of rations drawn for your Detachment from M^r [undecipherable] the Contractors [undecipherable] as signed by you, that you have drawn twice for the same day on the 9 Sept 1797 this appears [undecipherable] to be charged to you unless it should appear by the original [undecipherable] which you are hereby required to forward to this Office for the purpose of investigating the [undecipherable] that the mistake has originated with [undecipherable] or when and [undecipherable] have a strict attention and be [undecipherable] in all future [undecipherable] I am &c [undecipherable]