[252] Shall at least expect you to do it so far as to [undecipherable] to Send them to this Office for reconsideration. "As the manner in which most of the returns taken are drawn out defects all check or [undecipherable] I shall [undecipherable] you to be very particular in having the numbers and description of men [&] Arms drawn for fully [undecipherable] there- Sam[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Jon Doolittle of Accountants Office Agent S.A. Force September 11 [undecipherable] Boston... Sir I received your letter dated the 3^d [undecipherable] [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] receipt for ten thousand Dollars [which?] are files in this Office In future you will only have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for monies transmitted [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] Sam [undecipherable] W.S. Rufus Graves Esq^r September 11 1800 care of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Northampton M[undecipherable] Sir I have now to inform you of the [undecipherable] of your account of monies expended in paying for the quarter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] furnished the Officer [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the 16^th Reg[undecipherable] in the State of New Hampshire in 1799 amounting [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable: probable reading 923] from which has been deducted [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] to you[.] [undecipherable] claim for [undecipherable] draw from you from Aug[undecipherable] 1 to Oct[undecipherable] 27 The Sec[undecipherable] of War having [undecipherable] that no allowance shall be made to officers for [undecipherable] which they have not [undecipherable] by being [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on service or from any