account to you for the[undecipherable] in settlement of his [undecipherable] and give as Pay master, and it more justly to be lamented that you did more do so as no authority on this subject has ever been suggested to me, till now, when it appears that you have neglected to make the required deductions from the Pay of M^r Smalle before he was discharge from duties employ at his contract[?] regardless of your own responsibility, on this reason, I cannot therefore alone give former accountability in this case, without the express direction of the Secretary of War to that effect — Jam Y^r N^o[undecipherable] David Henley a[undecipherable]G Knoxville Tennessee March 22^d 1800. [undecipherable] Being was directed to Pay the Claim of Commissioners [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] from the 1^st [undecipherable] to the 22^d [undecipherable] of January 1793 [undecipherable] it appeared to him that the authority [undecipherable] of calling, these calls Commrs was greatly competent to their whole called and a Price for labor [undecipherable] and paid for by The United States. The pay and emoluments to be made, if expressly [undecipherable] & in institutions, a Pay Abstract to be furnished from the Meeting to effect which the Muster Rolls were returned to him. The receipt of [undecipherable]'s letter of the 16 instant & that of M^r McMillan of some date was acknowledged by the former letter. After the following Regulations given by [undecipherable] You are invited to close, and in was especially desired to have them particularly relative to the last clause in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] "Subsisting nations, Supply and [undecipherable] duty of [undecipherable] and entire expense." [undecipherable] "Regulations to be observed in the delivery and distribution of [undecipherable] — there to the Territory on the line [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] parties." "Regulations [undecipherable] including the allowance of Barracks or quarters to the officers of the line — and of fuel & general affairs in the staff of the [undecipherable]." "Regulations respecting nations supply and [undecipherable] duty of [undecipherable] and entire expenses —"