usual line of allowances. and if not in what manner I should proceed in making the deduction, whether it be chargeable to the Contractor or Officers ordering the Supplies: It may be proper to mention that the Bed sacks have been indiscriminately called for for whole Companies & not confined to the Sick of the Regiment, to whom only former usage authorizes such indulgence e~ Sam &c W.S. --- Edward Carrington Esq^r Richmond Va Accountants Office March 27^th 1800 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Five dollars & 44/100, which you will please to pay to Captⁿ Ja^s Bruff at Norfolk Virginia, taking his duplicate receipts for the same, being the balance on settlement of his account for expenses of himself & two men of his Company, in going from Baltimore to Niagara to attend a court of enquiry in the case of Major Rivardi, while there for returning. Sam &c W.S. --- Captⁿ James Bruff Norfolk Va March 27^th 1800 Sir Agreeably to my letter of the 25 Inst^o your account of expenses has been submitted to the Secretary of War for his approbation & which has been returned with his note annexed thereto in the following words ~ "For the reasons and circumstances stated by Maj^r Gen^l Hamilton the travelling expenses aforesaid are to be admitted deducting rations during the time engaged". Your Subsistence has accordingly been deducted say from 4 Aug^st to 31 Dec^r 1799 [undecipherable] statement underneath for your government leaving a balance in your favor of five dollars & 44/100, which sum you will receive from Edward Carrington, Esquire Supervisor at Richmond, granting your duplicate receipts for the same e~ Sam &c W.S. --- Rich^d Irish Esq^r Supervisor N York Accountants Office March 27^th 1800 Sir I received your letter of the 26 Inst^o, enclosing the following receipts viz: William Allison's for ............ D^rs 59. 85 & Peter aDransy's for ........... " 131. 25 making together the sum of one hundred ninety one Dollars & ten Cents, which will be entered on the Books of this Office e~ Sam &c W.S. --- John Chester Esq^r Wethersfield Conn^t March 27^th 1800 Sir I received your letter of the 22^d Inst^o enclosing the receipt of Phinias Emons for seventy three dollars & 27/100, which will be entered on the Books of this Office e~ Sam &c W.S. --- John Wilkins Jr Quarter m^r Gen^l Pittsburg — March 27^th 1800 Sir I hand you inclosed the following regulations issued by the Secretary of War, viz:^o " Regulations respecting certain Supplies & respecting objects of special and extra expence" "Regulations adopted respecting the allowance of Barracks or Quarters to the Officers of the Army, and of Fuel to Gen^l Officers & the Staff of the Army". "Regulations to be observed in the delivery & distribution of Fuel from to the Garrisons on the Sea Coast, and recruiting parties"