Should it so happen that any of the Commissions do not accrue there [undecipherable] before you close your quarterly accounts the amount so due must be deducted from the Pay [undecipherable] & the same charges [undecipherable] until [undecipherable] it is expedient & proper that their Pay should be [strikethrough: ?] before your accounts are made up — as referred to this office for payment can be permitted, & I presume that the means I have suggested will answer every purpose. [signed] [undecipherable] W^ill S. Rogers [undecipherable] Mercantsville [undecipherable] Port Town Virginia May 10^th 1800 Sir Your accounts of supplies to the Garrison of Norfolk [undecipherable] from 1 to the 7^th day? of [undecipherable] have been received at this office from the Secretary of War, and are returned for want of the requisite vouchers specified in your contract the original bills of parcels & receipts of the persons from whom purchased or to whom paid — also provision returns from the [undecipherable] Cap^t [undecipherable] specifying the number of rations & every character drawn for (as are the Fort Norfolk returns) until this is completely complied with your accounts will remain unsettled — From what has been said you will readily perceive that the vouchers particularly required are the bills of the parties to whom money was paid for [undecipherable] provisions, transportation & and every Person bills with their receipts [undecipherable] every extra charge not fixed by contract and for which you may probably have taken no bills or [undecipherable] you will establish by swearing that they are as low charged as could be bought in the market, or by the testimony of two or more creditable persons of the place — [signed] [undecipherable]