M: David Hale Accountants Office Portland April 7^th 1800 Sir You will receive from Nath [undecipherable] Fridich m: Collector at Portland the sum of twenty two dollars being the amount of your account for mustering & Inspecting the Recruits under the commands of [undecipherable] Wadsworth admitted by The Secretary of War for which from you will please to grant your duplicate receipts — Sam^l: [undecipherable] Major [undecipherable] Freeman April [undecipherable] 1800 Charleston S:C: I have received your letter dated the 9^th Ulto and [undecipherable] from m[undecipherable] the Contractor on the same subject to wit — whether he is entitled to pay money to an Officer for the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] over his [undecipherable]. I have answered his letter and as the subject come before you I have [undecipherable] enclosed a [undecipherable] thereof for your government. I herein inclose you a [undecipherable] of the Regulations [undecipherable] by the Secretary of War, therein mentioned, and agreeably to your request a copy of M: [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. Sam [undecipherable] M: Doddridge Crocker April 1^st 1800 Charleston S:C: Sir I duly received your letter dated the 10 ult. with the [undecipherable] therein mentioned. Referring you to my letter of the 9 ulto containing a copy of the Regulations [undecipherable] by the Sec:^y of War you will find that [undecipherable] is positively [undecipherable] down