[Docket: 18 June 1800 / Uriah Tracy / apphropr. [undecipherable]] [Finance] 18 June 1800 Dear Sir [undecipherable] I have received from you the bill for military appropriations. It allows, I find, to replace the horses wanted or that may be wanted for the two companies of Cavalry 5,000 Dollars only. A supplementary estimate predicated on the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable], called for 15,000 dollars, on the ground, that 8,100 would be necessary to replace the present deficiency of horses viz. 54 in the two troops at 150 Doll. cash and that the residue, 6,900 was proposed as a reserve [strikethrough: to be passed] to meet exigencies which might arise to the Southward or in the course of frontier service. Here [undecipherable] forwarded in 1799 and [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] their There is also left out of the bill, see the [Secretary's] estimate, the item for contingent expenses for presents to Indians — 13,000 Transportation of do — 10,000 Rations to do — (see [Secretary's] estimate & reasons for it 1799) 22,000 (in [undecipherable] of [Secretary], [undecipherable] for 1800) A stipend to the Choctaws 2,000 for the officers of Clerk hire to for the Purveyor & Pay master General I shall speak to W[undecipherable] Hamlin on [undecipherable] points [undecipherable] as the supplement is intended. These points in the mean while will it not be proper to keep the Bill suspended. yours sincerely [signature] [undecipherable initials] [Address:] Uriah Tracy