[Augusta Oct^r 1795 / from [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Tiernan.] Augusta 20^th October 1795. Sir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the eighteenth instant. And I now enclose a duplicate of mine to you of the fifteenth instant. I am for some time under great apprehensions for the safety of the money which had been committed to the charge of [undecipherable] frontier of the army on [undecipherable]. As yet [undecipherable] I should learn nothing more of it than the [undecipherable] of that month when it was [undecipherable]. It appears this [undecipherable] had been obtained in [undecipherable] for a favorable opportunity to be forwarded to Mr. M[undecipherable]. The [undecipherable] time mentioned in your letter of the [undecipherable] little Williams, have not been received. This may arise from the [undecipherable] conveyance of this mail for some time past. [undecipherable] wish to receive them, and the money for Armstrong's boys before I leave this place. I truly [undecipherable] intention of [undecipherable] the foot notes in the returns of [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] Service and [undecipherable] as they have filled with one name only, I imagined my signature would be sufficient, and that the initials [undecipherable] would have been [undecipherable]. I am busily employed in arranging the militia musters & pay rolls mentioned in my last, in order that they may be forwarded to the War Office. I shall [undecipherable] however [undecipherable] able to finish them by this week's mail. I have paid to M^r [undecipherable] five hundred and [undecipherable] nine dollars, the amount of Cap^t [undecipherable]'s bill for services, for — forward [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] and now transmit one of the [undecipherable] that you may [undecipherable] the amount thereof to my credit. I shall invest it in [undecipherable] current [undecipherable] that I since [undecipherable] on account [undecipherable] three hundred and [undecipherable] dollars. The [undecipherable] is [undecipherable]. I shall be extremely obliged to you if you would inform me what allowance is to be made for [undecipherable] the [undecipherable]. You will receive in a private conveyance [undecipherable] account and vouchers. [undecipherable] River and the settlement [undecipherable] made when [undecipherable] will be arranged — I wrote you on the [undecipherable] for me [undecipherable] to Cap^t Dickinson's accounts as [undecipherable] under [undecipherable]. I did not then nor do I now consider that I can go into an examination of these accounts until I should receive [undecipherable] from you — it appears to me that they cannot otherwise be settled but in your office — Cap^t Dickinson is stationed on the [undecipherable] frontier. I am with great esteem Sir Your most obed. Serv.^t [undecipherable: Wm. Irvine?] [undecipherable] [Joseph Howell, Esq.^r C.M.H.W.]