Subsistance and all that [undecipherable] receive in future the [undecipherable] allowances of rations as is granted to Lieutenants. Therefore this [undecipherable] will charge it [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] for him for February will be allowed at 7 dollars [undecipherable] &c — Dec^r 6 179[undecipherable] Together with the commissions thereon. at 2½ [undecipherable] [undecipherable] d[undecipherable] [undecipherable] to 97 for which sum I have directed the Pay master general to give you a credit on the books of his office. The [undecipherable] to which you refer in your letter of the [undecipherable] may is now [undecipherable], I would therefore wish you to explain the nature of the claim, if it has not already been stated to your satisfaction, you will please forward the [undecipherable] to the necessary [undecipherable] — [undecipherable: probable reading] W[undecipherable] Jon^o Jackson Esq^r Accountants Office [undecipherable] July 21 179[undecipherable] Sir Your accounts of expenditures for the Fortifications at Boston have passed examination & the amount therein applied to your credit, leaving a balance due the United States of Two thousand, eight hundred twenty eight dollars & [undecipherable]. This [undecipherable] includes the sum of [undecipherable] D^rs. Transmitted to you on the 13^th [undecipherable] & otherways differ from your statement of 282 87 which having arisen on former [settlements?] (of which you were informed) [undecipherable] no further explanation. The Secretary of War has or no doubt [undecipherable] apprized you of his decision, as to the [undecipherable] given by [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] Instructions as agent for this Department. You will be pleased [undecipherable] to accommodate your accounts thereto, so that on the next [undecipherable] no difference may arise — Sam^l [undecipherable]