by grant for as Master, under the abovementioned error as follows viz: from 17 Jan.^y to 30 June 1799 — 165 rations [undecipherable] p^r D^m $1.32 1 July to 31 Dec.^r — 166 D^o — [undecipherable] 7.00 Dolls 37.49 Sum $^c 17.2 M^r Timothy Darling Accountants Office late a Major in the 1^st Reg.^t April 16^th 1800 Infantry — to be left at the Post office Concord, Masachusetts — Sir I have received your letter of the 3^d Inst and have noted its contents — For your government I inform you that the rations [undecipherable] by you are as follows viz: For a master from 16 June to 31 Aug. 1799 — [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] D^o to 31 Dec. — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] For [undecipherable] from 1 Aug.^t to 31 December, as Commandant add 4 rations additional — [undecipherable] 89.12 Making [undecipherable] Eighty nine dollars & twelve cents, for which sum the Pay master General has been directed to hold you accountable. Sam B. M.S. Lieut. Whipple Hovite April 16 1800 16 Reg.^t — Camp at Oxford to the care of the Sub-master Morriston Masachusetts — Sir By a letter received from Major Darling of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Masters, but that they draw rations for sake of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that they shall be allowed, an officer may draw the rations of a Soldier, only entitled 4 [undecipherable], which he is employed as a Quarter, provided the same is not otherwise drawn by the [undecipherable]