and reserve myself, authority only to assent to your breaking a reasonable commencment of the bed or two rooms for the former to a curtness offered by the Hospitality of two respectable Persons in Baltimore. Relative to the charge for making Regimental Tents I can give no evidence, as it does not properly come before me. Sam H. W.S. Cha^s. Haines Esq^r. New York Accountant's Office March 26^th 1800 Sir The within acc^t (as it now is) has been Returned here for your examinatⁿ & on fuller account, are returned for the Purpose of obtaining his assent thereof for the Payment, without which they cannot be passed to your account. Sam^l H. W.S. D W.B, S Simmons acc^t of Postage for July & Aug^t 1799 D^o 44.46 Do for Sep^t. . . . . . . 133.77 Do for Oct^r. . . . . . . 196.11 Do for Nov^r. . . . . . . 141.83 The Secretary of War March 26^th 1800 Sir On looking into the accounts of Chas B. Clayton Contractor for the State of New Jersey I find he has paid considerable Sums of money upon the order of the Officers for State Risks for the Ration at Union being, as I have not any knowledge of Regulations or Established practices which have grown in this case I request to be informed what Officers should be thus authoriz'd to order Supplies out of the [undecipherable]