inform [pa?] [there?] that whilst the amounts perfectly to answer this point as it becomes due, they do not however absolve [you?] from [your?] legal claim [on?] [undecipherable] Regulations of this Department which [says?] that no reimbursement of any kind shall be made for [excess?] of Justice — Sam H[undecipherable] Charles Carrington esq. Accom^ts Office Supervisor Richmond D.C. January 20 1801 Sir I received your letter D^ated the 10^th inst covering your account of [undecipherable] for making [undecipherable] and advances to Contractors for subsisting the troops of the United States on the State of [undecipherable] contracted to 31 Dec^r 1799, which has undergone examination & from which I have deducted the sum of [undecipherable] dollars & [undecipherable] which is fully explained by the annexed account of differences; the balance remaining being five hundred [undecipherable: probable reading seventy] dollars & [undecipherable], you will receive in the usual manner from the Treasury of the United States a receipt for which you will please transmit to this Office. Sam H[undecipherable] M^r Rob^t R. Richardson January 2[undecipherable] 1801 Contractor Baltimore Sir [undecipherable] your letter dated the 20 [undecipherable] enclosing authentic receipts for two thousand five hundred dollars, which is entered on [undecipherable] books of this office. Sam H[undecipherable]