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     I have received your letter of this date respecting the quantum of compensation to be allowed to Colonel heath, as against for paying the year 1794 replace with the Virginia militia called out to suppress the insurrection at the westward in the year 1794, wherein you request me to state first, in what respects, the performance of his duties has differed from the other agents employed in the same service. Second, whether it appears that the mode in which he has done the business, has been attended with a greater saving to the public, then the mark mode in which it has been executed by the other agents.