52. and reserve myself authority only to assent to your breaking a reasonable commencement of the bed or two rooms for the [undecipherable] to a [undecipherable] offered by the [undecipherable] of two respectable Persons in Baltimore. Relative to the charge for making Segmented boats I can give no evidence as it does not properly come before me. Sam H. W.S. Ebr. Havens Esq^r. Accountants Office New York March 26^th 1800 Sir The within acct [undecipherable] of now at [undecipherable] See [undecipherable] back for [undecipherable] & on fuller [undecipherable] are returned for the [undecipherable] of obtaining his receipt thereof for the payment without which they cannot be [undecipherable] to your account. Sam H. W.S. D W.S. A [undecipherable] acct of [undecipherable] for July & Augt 1799 Dol[undecipherable] [undecipherable] 11 Do for [undecipherable] 20 Do for Oct. . . . . . . [undecipherable] 27 Do for Nov. . . . . . . [undecipherable] The Secretary of War March 26^th 1800 Sir On looking into the accounts of Chas. A. [undecipherable] Contractor for the State of New Jersey I find he has paid considerable sums of money upon the order of the Officers for [undecipherable] rations for the [undecipherable] at Trenton [undecipherable] as I have not any knowledge of Regulations or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which would govern in this case I request to be informed what Officers should be thus authoriz'd to call for Supplies out of [undecipherable]