[undecipherable] War Dept. [undecipherable] Dear Sir, Having made application in regard to your [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to the Comptroller your reply to [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [on your accounts], [to] [undecipherable] [the] [undecipherable] preparing them in the [undecipherable] way You first say in your remarks that your act of [undecipherable] that the 115,000 dols is [undecipherable] [undecipherable], as [undecipherable] I understand that you consent to its being considered as [upon] your account [as] only 170,000. I [undecipherable] now from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the dollars into the Treasury. [You think] that your [charges] against [undecipherable] and amount to 191,193. Dols — you may depend on [undecipherable] [warrant], receipts and entries and I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from your entries and [undecipherable] [no] acknowledge[ment] [undecipherable] laid by you [or whether] then 185,793 Dols — nor has [undecipherable] less [accounts] or lodged in any office, where I can possibly find it, any account of the [undecipherable] now [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] the Treasury cannot, [undecipherable] to [the] [undecipherable] of office [and] [undecipherable] the [same] [difference] between [the account] to your [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] to M^r [undecipherable] will be [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable], sent you when it is [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] warrant enclosed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the opinion of the Comptroller, as it [ought] to be [returned] into the Treasury, and the same [cancelled before] you [have] [undecipherable] from it. The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] N^y was [not an] [undecipherable]; it is [undecipherable] taken [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] you can ascertain [this] by your own Books. [But] The Comptroller says M^r [undecipherable: Burnet's] receipt [undecipherable] is not good and [undecipherable] into an acknowledged [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for 86,000 dols, but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with [whom] [undecipherable] the Bills, what amounts to [undecipherable] Dols [undecipherable] [undecipherable] appear for the whole sum, your reasons would be just; but as there is [now] [undecipherable] for the — it becomes necessary that some [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be procured by you, whereby [he] may [still] be obliged to do it. I had hoped that your accounts would have been more easily closed, but difficulties will always arise in business of so intricate a nature. I am however of opinion that a delay at this time can prejudice you but little and the Treasury of the United States is so [undecipherable] with money, that [undecipherable] there would be little prospect of your obtaining your ballance, I am unacquainted with the value of the New [undecipherable] you mention and cannot advise you in that respect I have written to M^r Pendergart who I [undecipherable] in Maryland, and requested him to inform me of the amount of the monies he received from you. Jos Clay Esquiro.