[Address panel — docketing notation partially legible: [undecipherable] / Jan^ry 93] War Department Accountants Office Jan^ry 4. 1793 – Sir Your letter of Oct^r 16^th now but [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] correspondence with [Gen.] Wilkinson & are received. Will be more fully answered by the time it is expected you will arrive at [undecipherable: Pittsburgh?]. you mention [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of 553 Dollars paid Gen[eral] Wilkinson on acc[oun]t of his pay [&c] [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the 1 Jan[ua]ry 1791 [undecipherable] of your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] order M[r.] Wilkinson has regularly [undecipherable] the whole of his pay from [that] [period] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by you, any further [payment] here will stop until your explanation is [undecipherable] — Appropriation is made for two M[?] pay & arrangements are making [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for two more for the Troops at the [Westward] so that two M[?] will certainly be [undecipherable] as [soon] as [possible] & perhaps four — The want of a [settlement] of the [undecipherable] of the troops create [undecipherable] in this [undecipherable] — The very existence of the War [undecipherable] will be materially [undecipherable] by [the] [manner] in which the acc[ounts] of [the] army are [conducted] — there [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who are prompt in their [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] you will [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] Accountant [undecipherable] are [promised] [undecipherable] Cadet Swan [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] days [undecipherable]