The first image file is inaccessible from the allowed working directory. I can only transcribe what's visible in the second image (page 143), which shows the closing of the primary letter followed by separate letters below ruled lines. Based on letter-book conventions, the top section (above the first ruled line) is the closing of the primary document: --- this; expecting that you will speedily give me every infor- -mation which the magnitude of the subject seems to require. the amo^t of the bills & the time of service not having been approved by you I could wish a few lines on that subject— I observe the major part of the Provision returns for the Reg^t are drawn out by the Quarter Master (Lieut.^t Cooper) without being countersigned by you: as the mode adopted, is informal, I could wish you to inform me, if it was by your direction, & whether it meets your approbation Sam &c W.L.