Joshua Wentworth Esq^r Accountants Office, Supervisor New Hampshire July 6. 1796— Sir: I have to acknowledge the rect of your letter of the 29^th Ulto and have to inform you that I have never heard from Capt Tilton since I wrote to you enclosing the letter for him, and he has not refunded the balance of his Account to the Treasury as I requested him to do — You will please therefore apply to him again for the amount, and remit it as directed in said letters — I am &c in the absence of the Acco^t Peter Hagner P: Clerke [Duplicate] --- George Fleming, Esq^r Accountants Office, West Point July 6. 1796 Sir. I have in the absence of the Accountant to acknowledge the receipt of your Letters of the [undecipherable] Inst together with the package of vouchers accompanying it. They will be placed under examination and of the result you will be duly informed. I return you the account of George Parrott for making an Artillery Coat — not conceiving it proper for you to make the payment — If the Soldier was entitled to it, it is an item of expenditures not proper to be settled here and consequently should not be paid out of any monies advanced from this Department — The Soldier is agreeably to law entitled to a certain proportion of Cloathing — when this is exceeded in any manner the Soldier and not the public sho' pay the expence I am &c Peter Hagner P: Clerke [Duplicate] [20 July]