George Fleming Esq^r.                                         Accountants Office West Point — New York                                             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^r you settled with M^r Freeman at the Charges contained therein — When I informed you in my letter of the 1^st 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 unentered. I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct.