[J Howell J^r esq^r —] Philad^a Decem^r 30^th 1800 161 [Sir] Have paid to Collins for drawing out the regiment account which is in your Office 36 doll^rs the acct was of more to you a myself the other day, in order was drawn by Collins on me to pay 36 doll more for said and he appeared to write 57 days at 3 acc^t — pardon me for taking the liberty only would wish to know how long time it would take in making out a regiments account — Comp^ts to the Seasons N.B. This letter should have been entered [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] page to M^r de Haas J P de Haas — Jn^o Hopkins esquire — Office of Army Accounts New York Jan^y 6^th 1799 Sir M^r Dunscomb in his letter of the 12 [undecipherable] last informed me that the Specie pay in your hands due Cap^t Benjⁿ Taliaferro is retained in consequence of sundry sums of money received by him, which I suppose were transmitted you for the purpose of being accounted for previous to your delivering the Specie warrant — on a reference to the papers of Benjⁿ Harrison esq^r D C M Gen^l, it appears that Cap^t Taliaferro left with M^r Harrison receipts for the amount of the monies received by him for pay of sundry soldiers returned from captivity — in consequence of which, I have closed the accounts of Cap^t Taliaferro in the Books of this office — you are therefore fully a[dvised]