by your for as Master, under the abovementioned error is follows Viz: from 17 Jan.^y to 30 June 1799, 165 rations 10 p^r [undecipherable] D^o [undecipherable] 1 July to 31 Dec.^r — 166 d.^o — $c.^o — $1.00 Dolars 37.40 Sam D.^o M.S. --- M^r Timothy Darling Accountants Office has a Major in the 10 Rg.^t — April 16^th 1800 [New] Hampshire — to be left at the Post office Concord, [New] Hampshire Sir I have received your letter of the 3^d inst and have noted its contents — For your government there inform you that the rations overstated by you are as follows Viz: For a Master, from 16 June to 31 Aug.^t 1799 — 79 Rations [undecipherable] do 1 Sep.^r to 31 Oct. — 66 D.^o — [undecipherable] For [undecipherable], from 1 Aug.^t to 31 November, as Commandant 46 4 rations additional $1677 90.10 Oct. 17.10 Making together Eighty nine dollars & twelve cents, for which the [undecipherable] the Pay master General has been desired to hold you accountable. Sam D.^o M.S. --- Lieut Whipple [undecipherable] April 16 [undecipherable] 16 [undecipherable] F — Camp at Oxford to the care of the Sub-master [undecipherable] [New] Hampshire — Sir By a letter received from Major Darling of 4^th inst, I am informed, that some of the officers of his command employed Masters, but that they drew rations for duties by way of perquisites, supposing it would be allowed, an officer may draw the rations of a Soldier, only while [undecipherable] which he is employed as a Master, provided the [undecipherable] is not [undecipherable] drawn by the [undecipherable]