[171] [Lieut Patrick C Harris Fort Johnston N. C.] Accountants Office July 4. 1800 Sir I have received your letter dated the 22^d May 1800 enclosing your account for expences in procuring cloathing & vouchers thereon referred to for Settlement — By our established Regulations of this Department as has been confirmed by a Depart order under date of the 10 May 1800 it has been made the duty of the Pay masters of the different Regiments on the first instance to receive all claims which the Officers of their Respective Regiments may have against the United States, for settlement with the Pay master General in order therefore that your account may pursue the course pointed out by the Instructions to the Pay masters, I herewith return it to you — Your subsistance account for the Year 1793, has been transmitted to the office of the Pay master General agreeably to your request — Sam [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Bvt [undecipherable] Gray Apt [undecipherable] 2^d Regt Inft West Point —] 1^st July 1800 Sir On application to Nicholas Fish Superintendent at New York you will receive the sum of ninety dollars being for forage pay from 1 April to 30 June 1800 for which Sum you will grant the necessary receipts Sam [undecipherable] [undecipherable]