George Fleming Esq^r West Point - New York Accountants Office Oct. 22^d 1796 Sir I received your letter of the 18^th Inst enclosing your account Current: - as well as a Contingent Account & Vouchers - which will be placed under examination. - On a slight perusal of your account I find you have introduced Charges which are improper to be settled here. - One is that of the purchase of Wood which you received the Money for from The Treasury. - I will in a few days inform you of the Arrangement of your accounts which will take place as early as the Circumstances of the Case will admit of. I have not been a [underline: little] surprized on the perusal of the Account of 756^71/100 D^rs you settled with M^r Freeman at the Charges contained therein. - When I informed you in my letter of the 11^th June last, relative to making small Advances for pursuing Deserters, I had no intention of giving you unlimited authority for settling Accounts of Officers for that purpose to the amount of fifty or sixty Pounds, as appears in your account. - It is a thing unprecedented here; and until the Circumstances are explained on what Account such amazing sums have been expended, the Account will remain unsettled. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct.