W. D. Accountants Office February 28^th 1794 Sir Your letter of 5^th Inst. I have just received inclosing the account of M^r White which I now return having given instruction to David Healy Esq^r to discharge the same agreeably to Cap^t Steels Statement which he informs is upon the same terms of the Waggons employed by M^r Allison and I have further to observe that this is also agreeably to the usage of the Treasury Department — It is with pleasure that I can make this communication to you, as I presume you will be enabled to explain to the satis= faction of M^r White that his account is to be settled upon General principles I am Sir &c John Steel Esq^r Joseph Howell Salisbury North Carolina —