M^r. [David?] Hale Portland Sir You will receive from [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Collector at Portland the sum of twenty two dollars being the amount of your account for examining & Digesting the Accounts under the commands of [Brig?] General Wadsworth submitted by the Secretary of War — for which sum you will please to grant your duplicate receipts — Sam H[undecipherable] W[undecipherable] Major [undecipherable] Freeman Charleston S^o. C^a. April 1^st 1800 I have received your letter dated the 9^th Ulto from M^r. [undecipherable] the Contractor on the same subject as [undecipherable] — whether he is entitled to pay money to an Officer for the arrangement of stores [undecipherable] his business. I have answered his letter and as the subject [undecipherable] before you I have given [undecipherable] of his [undecipherable] for your government. I herewith enclose you a copy of the Regulations framed by the Secretary of War, therein mentioned, and — agreeably to your request a copy of M^r [undecipherable] Sam H[undecipherable] W[undecipherable] M^r. [Doddridge?] Crocker Charleston S^o. C^a. April 1^st 1800 Sir I duly received your letter dated the 10^th Ulto with the accounts therein mentioned — [Adjoining?] go to my letter of the [9^th?] Ulto containing a copy of the Regulations framed by the Sec of War you will find that [undecipherable] is positively bound down