Hon^ble. Jas. Ross Esq^r. March 28^th. 1800 in Senate Sir The accounts for retained rations due Captⁿ. Sam^l Calhoun & Wm Young and the Officers non commissioned Officers & Privates composing their companies, for services performed in the Year 1794, are on file in this Office — The Officers can receive the amount due them, on making a statement of their accounts, charging the United States with the whole number of rations due them for their services, and deduct therefrom the rations or money drawn in lieu of the same to which accounts their attestations must be annexed agreeably to the inclosed form. The claim of the non commissioned Officers & Privates for retained rations cannot be admitted, as there are no documents in this Office, by which the number can be ascertained, neither is there any law or established regulations for paying Soldiers for any rations which they have not drawn. Sam^ff W.S.