Collectors Office Port Washington July 9^th 1796 Sir — I received yours of the 19^th June last, by Cap^t Eastwood, together with the Stores, shipt by you for Cap^t Rickard, which I have forwarded on to him, and by his request, have paid the freights from this place to Tarborough, amounting to seven dollars, for this sum I have taken the necessary Vouchers. — I would prefer if Agreeable to you, to have orders from the Treasury Department, to make a charge of that sum in my Next Quarterly Accounts with the United States. — you will please to inform me of your Determination as soon as convenient. — I am With due Respect Sir Your Ob^t Servant William Keais Collector Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. Intend^t. of Stores of the U. States [address panel:] [25.] Washington N^o July 11^th Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Intendant of Stores of the United States [docketing, upper right:] [undecipherable] Keais Port Washington the 9 July 1796 — [postal notation, center:] States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [address verso, lower right:] William Keais Esq Collector Port Washington N Carolina —