364. Capt. James Sletts Accountants Office, Fort Ticumbattle N. Soliders. January 27^th 1801. Connecticut Sir Your letter dated the 8^th Inst. with the account enclosed is received. The Regulations for allowing extra advances will not authorize the admissions of your claims — The Officer claiming, must have been ordered on special services by which he incurred the extra expense — & a certificate to this effect is the only voucher that can be admitted. Your absence from your command does not appear to be directed by your Superior Officer — the claim therefore is refused as incompetent — Sam^ble W. S. Gov^r. Jackson Sir January 26^th 1804. of Great Britain. Sir Your account & receipt for subsistences in the month of December last on account of the Publications at Boston have been remitted to this sum of furnishing you Commissary of [undecipherable] three thousand four hundred seventy seven dollars & you persist in your credit on the Books of this Office having a balance of two thousand four hundred & five dollars — You are from year to the [undecipherable] a dispute from your Statement & from you which is accounted for in the annexed Statement of differences — Sam^ble W.S. P.S. Your letter enclosing letter from Brig^de Castle W^r. together with more than three bundles of acts, not yet reed — this communication about to be entered [undecipherable] —