Samuel Meredith Esq^r & Department of War Treas^r U. S. — Accountants Office December 9^th 1795 Sir Inclosed is a Receipt of John Habersham Collector of the Customs for Savannah in the State of Georgia, amounting to fifty four Dollars and 50/100, also a Warrant for that Sum being for the incidental and contingent Expences for the Department to which Warrant the Receipt is to be annex-ed agreeably to the Request of the Comptroller of the Treasury. — I am Sir y^c William Simmons [The Comptroller. The Treasury —] Department of War Accountants Office Decemb^r 10^th 1795 Sir On the 21^st October last I wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury requesting that I might be fur-nished with instructions for keeping the Accounts of the Navy; at this Office which letter I have since been informed was referd to you. — I have, therefore to request Sir, that you will be pleased to furnish me with such instructions, that I may be enabled to entail the Accounts which have been settled here before the end of the present year. — I am Sir Your most Ob^t S^t William Simmons