[364.] Capt James Hilts Accountants Office, Fort Ticumbull N London January 27^th 1801. Connecticut Sir Your letter dated the 6^th Inst with the account called in is received — The Regulations for allowing extra advances will not authorize the allowance of your claims — The Officer claiming must have been ordered on special service by which he incurred the extra advance [undecipherable] to certify to this effect is the only [undecipherable] that can be admitted — Your absence from your command does not appear to be directed by your [undecipherable] officer — the same therefore is returned as incomplete — Sam^l. W S Gov. Jackson Sen. January 26 1804 Q. M. of [undecipherable] Sir Your account & receipt for subsistence in this month of November last on account of the [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] have been [undecipherable] to the sum of [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] three [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] seven dollars [undecipherable] You [undecipherable] subject to your credit on the [undecipherable] of this Office having a balance of [undecipherable] hundred [undecipherable] from 26 [undecipherable] You are now due to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] which is [undecipherable] for to the [undecipherable] amount [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] Sam^l. W S P.S. Your letter enclosing [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] together with [undecipherable] than three [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to this [undecipherable] about to be [undecipherable] inform-