conformably to this settlement should be brought by you into your next Acct Currt Sam H. [undecipherable: signature] Lieut. Robert Cushing 16 Reg. Camp at Oxford Massachusetts Accountants Office April 16^th 1800 Sir By a letter received from Major Darling of this Inst. I am informed that one of the Officers of his command has [a] Waiter but that they now Return for such by way of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it would be allowed. No officer may draw the Return of a Soldier duly enlisted & mustered which he is employed a Waiter provided this same is not otherways owned by the Soldier himself, but cannot properly be allowed as a [undecipherable: Perquisites]. The Pay master General has therefore been desired to hold you accountable for the sum of thirteen dollars & [undecipherable]/100 being the amount of [undecipherable] Returns drawn by you for a Waiter, under the foregoing cases from [undecipherable] to 21 Dec. 1799 at the lowest price of 16 [undecipherable] ration Sam H. [undecipherable: signature] Lieut. Lyras Danforth 16 Reg. Camp at Oxford Massachusetts April 16^th 1800 Sir By a letter received from Major Darling of dates 3^d Inst. I am informed, that none of the Officers of his command have Waiters but that they now Return for such by way of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it would be allowed. No officer may draw the Return of a Soldier duly enlisted & mustered which he is employed as a Waiter provided the same is not [undecipherable: otherways] owned by the Sol- dier himself, [undecipherable] cannot properly be allowed as a [undecipherable: Perquisite]. The Pay master General has therefore been desired to hold you accountable for the sum of fifty eight dollars & [undecipherable]/100 being for rations drawn