[380] thirty Dollars to be transmitted to Augusta De Grasse being for his Compensation as temporary Engineer from the 1^st of October to 31^st December 1795 inc — for which sum you will take his receipts — — Sum ⅇ 8 William Simmons Thomas Hott Esq^r. New London Virg^a Department of War Accountants Office January 7^th 1796 Sir In answer to your letter of 9^th October 1795 I have to inform you that your Orders drawn on me to the amount of 1528¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars have all been paid, and that you will now receive a post note in your favor for the sum of 637¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars the whole amounting to 2180¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars being the amount of your Estimate for September 1795 for which sum of 2180¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars you are requisite to send forward immediately, if it is your wish to have the orders and receipts for payments returned to you, it shall be done — you will also receive the further sum of 923¹⁰⁰/₁₀₀ Dollars, for which you will also send your Rect being the amount of your Estimate for the Month of October 1795 — your Estimates for the Month of November and December 1795 have not yet come to hand — When you forward the Estimates for these months I will thank you to inform me if it will not answer to transmit the Money through the hands of Edward Carrington Esq^r. McJennison for the State of Virginia, this is the channel through which we transmit all Money to that State, and it will be much more desireable than to admit payment of your several Drafts at this Office in the manner you have drawn. This [left margin notation: he brought of the letter of the 13^th Oct]