[Page 94] himself; but cannot precisely be attested as is Requisite. The Pay master General has therefore been decided to hold you accountable for the sum of Fifty eight dollars & [undecipherable]/for, being for rations drawn by you for a Waiter, under the abovementioned error as follows viz— from 20 Jan.^y to 30 June 1799 — 162 rations [undecipherable] @ [undecipherable]/30 1 July to 31 Dec.^r — 184 — 15 — 27.40 [undecipherable] 17.4[undecipherable] Sam H^c W.L. Lieut. Barry [undecipherable: Clards?] 16 Aug^t Camp at Oxford near Worcester, Mass^s Commissaries Office April 14^th 1800 Sir By a letter received from Major Darling of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]^th inst.^t I am informed that one of the officers of his command employed Waiters but that they drew rations for such by way of forage supposing it would be allowed. An officer may draw [the] ration of a Soldier duly detailed & mustered while he is employed as a Waiter, Provided the same is not otherwise drawn, by the Soldier himself; but cannot precisely be attested as is Requisite. The Pay Master General has therefore been decided to hold you accountable for the Sum of forty four dollars & [undecipherable]/for, being for rations drawn by you for a Waiter under the abovementioned error as follows viz from 1 [undecipherable] to 30 June 1799 — 41 rations @ [undecipherable]/[undecipherable] — [undecipherable] 17 [undecipherable] 1 July to 31 Dec.^r — 184 — 15 — 44.99 Sam H^c W.L. 44 99 Jn.^o Huntington Esq^r new London, Con^t April 19, 1800 Sir I rec.^d your letter of the 15 Inst.^t enclosing the [undecipherable: Act?] of [undecipherable] Walter [undecipherable] for Ninety eight dollars & [undecipherable]/for which will be noted in the books of this office— [signature] W.L.