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 little Surprized on the perusal of the Account of 756.⁷²/₁₀₀ D^rs you settled with M^r Forsman at the Charges contained therein — When I informed you in my letter of the 1^st June last, relative to making small Advances for furnishing 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 unprecedeted 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 St Manning I Visscher Fort Stanwix Accountants Office Oct 22^d 1796 Sir On the other side you have duplicates of my letter to you of the 36^th ulto to which you are requested particularly to attend — I have rec^d your letter of the 18^th Inst I am &c W. Simmons Acct