[162] M^r. [undecipherable] Waldo Salem Mass^ts Secretary's Office July 4^th 1800 Sir I received your letter dated the 29 [undecipherable]^th enclosing a receipt for five hundred Dollars, which you are [undecipherable] to accountable for on the Books of this Office Sam [undecipherable] Nathl. F [undecipherable] Esq^r Portland July 4^th 1800 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of one hundred fifty six Dollars & 0[undecipherable] Cts which [please to] pay to D^r. [undecipherable] [undecipherable]wing at Collins [undecipherable]king his duplicated receipt for the [undecipherable] being the amount of his acct for medicinal administrations [undecipherable] attendance & hospital stores [furnished?] this State at Fort Sumner from Jan [undecipherable] to October 1799 inclusive [undecipherable]for medicines furnished to the 1^st Reg^t of Infantry. Sam [undecipherable] David [Huley?] Esq^r. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] July 1 1800 Sir I have received your letter of the 11 [undecipherable] together with its enclosures respecting the advance you require on your Recruits account, the whole of which I have laid before [undecipherable] the Sec^y of War who says he will write [to] you on the subject which will probably be by the same post Sam [undecipherable]