[undecipherable filing notation, upper left margin] [To [undecipherable] [undecipherable] July 15, 179[undecipherable]] The Treasurer of the United States has exhibited his accounts of expenditures on Warrants drawn by the Secretary of War and countersigned by you [as] Accountant of [the] War Department, numb[ered] 1 to 149 inclusive and amounting [in] the whole to Ninety one thousand, seven hundred seventy three Dolls & [undecipherable] Cents — As the settlement of these amounts must according [to] the forms of the Treasury be made separately [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [as] to be regular, [we?] have [undecipherable] the [Treasury?] it will be necessary that your Accounts [be] rendered for the same periods, to [enable] the Treasury to compare the [statements] to the different heads of expenditure [contemplated] in the Act of [Congress] & the 8^th of May 1792, to be made & [undecipherable] under the direction of the War Department — You are therefore requested to transmit as soon as the same can be prepared, your accounts for the expenditures charged by the Treasurer to the 1^st [instant?] [undecipherable] in the following manner — Pay of the Army — Subsistence of Officers Bounties to Soldiers Expenses of the Recruiting Service Incidental Expenses — It will be necessary that separate schedules should be rendered for the expenditures under each head, and that the accounts should specify the Warrants drawn, and the objects for which [each] [undecipherable] spent. — And as these schedules [must] contain only those accounts as have been [satisfactorily] [undecipherable: settled?] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Your old advances which have been made [to?] accounts [should] contain [undecipherable] expenditures [?] and your [officers'?] [Separate?] [schedules?] are also to be rendered under the following heads — Advances for the Pay & Subsistenance of the Army — Advances for the Recruiting Service — Advances for Contingencies of the [undecipherable: Western Departments?] — [Under/From?] one of these heads [may] be stated all [undecipherable] advances [as] necessarily [?] to the [undecipherable] constituting of the War Department [required?] to be [undecipherable: settled?] by you — [undecipherable] [must?] fund [accompany?] that [which?] [may?] [undecipherable] [for?] [making?] advances for the [foregoing?] [undecipherable] These advances [should?] [also?] have been made for the [undecipherable] [finding?] of the [Treasury?] & [undecipherable] of [others?] [practice?], you will please to [state?] [specifically?] and [correctly?] to the nature of the [purpose?] or subject for which the amounts are to be [rendered?] [undecipherable] In [relation?] to the accounts for advances as [undecipherable] [will?] [be?] expected, it will [also?] be [necessary?] that each Warrant [should?] be [specified?] and that the [?] drawn to [army?] advances [?] to such [instruments?] [should?] be [indicated?] in [some?] manner — The aggregate amount of all the advances [rendered?] by you, it is expected will [agree?] [with?] others from [some?] [charges?] [?] the [Treasurer?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable closing] [undecipherable signature] [To?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]