Mr David Stodder Constructor of The Frigate Baltimore } Sir Accountants Office August 4^th 1796 Your Bill in favor of Samuel Sterett for 500 Dollars on the Secretary of War has been paid and charg'd to your account. So I am at a loss to know the State of your account, of whom & when you received the money. I have to request that you will state an account Current and forward it to this Office charging your salary from the date of your Acceptance & crediting the money received, particularly setting forth of whom & the time. I am &c. In absence of The Accountant Peter Hagner Prin^l Clk