[notes met with immediate payment Sam C^o] [N 2] M^r Doderidge Crocker Accountants Office Charlton S.C. Octo 23^d 1800 Sir Your accounts & vouchers for supplies issued from 8 August 1800 to the troops at & near Charlston amounting by your statement to $[undecipherable] 2374. 22, have been duly & admitted to your credit against the sum of $[undecipherable] 25321 [undecipherable] with which you stand charged, the balance of $[undecipherable] 1867 [undecipherable] you are held accountable for. Notwithstanding the many particular instructions relative to your accounts contained on my letters of the 13^th Oct 1799, the 1^st March & 8 April 1800 also, your accounts are so materially different in statement & deficient in vouchers as to render it necessary to recapitulate what appears to have escaped you particularly as the [undecipherable] having to state your accounts now imposes very much their settlement. I hope therefore you will remember that it is requisite to have the aggregate amount of supplies to each post (as this your late abstracts do not show) for which purpose it is obvious that separate abstracts are necessary endorsed as to be States first under the head of Returns Spread all the Rations allowed on each Return which are to be inscribed then with this abstract — & th Rations [undecipherable] Supplies & Expenditures with the former thereon & &c Hospital Supplies & Expenditures with this [undecipherable] — &c