usual line of allowance and if not in what manner [undecipherable] should proceed in making the execution whether it be chargeable to the Contractor or Officers receiving the Supplies It may be proper to mention that the Advances have been inconveniently late for — for while Contractors [undecipherable] not confined to the links of the Regiments, to whom only former usage authorized such indulgences From &c [undecipherable] Edward Carrington Esq: Richmond V.º Accountants Office March 27^th 1800 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will commend you this sum of [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] which you will please to pay to Cap^t [undecipherable] Bruff at Norfolk Virginia taking his duplicate receipts for the same, being the balance in fulfilment of his account for expenses of himself & [undecipherable] of his Company, in going from [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to attend a Court of Inquiry in the case of Major [undecipherable] while there for returning — Sam[undecipherable] M[undecipherable] Cap^t James Bruff at Norfolk V.º March 27^th 1800 Sir Specially in my letter of the 11 Inst your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] has been submitted to the Secretary [undecipherable] for his approbation & which has been received with his and annexed thereto in the following words — "For the reasons and circumstances stated by my [undecipherable] submitted, the travelling expenses aforesaid are to be admitted [undecipherable] reasonable [undecipherable] [undecipherable]" Your [undecipherable] has accordingly been [undecipherable] to go from 1 [undecipherable] to 28 [undecipherable] 1799 [undecipherable] settlement meanwhile [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] a balance in your favor of [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] you will receive from Edward