[301] Col.^o David Henley A.W.D. Knoxville Accountants Office Dec.^r 30^th 1796 Sir The foregoing is a duplicate (see page 297) of my letter to you of the 27^th inst. enclosing an extract taken from the Warrant Book of this Office of payments made to Chisholm & others on account of the Indian Department from 1^st Sept to that day. I now enclose you an extract to this day, including the first period. — You will thereby observe the sums Chisholm has received on account of the Indian Department, with which he is to be charged on settlement of his accounts which are referred to you: — his charges being principally unsupported by any kind of vouchers, and the expenditures having taken place principally, as he says, among the Indians where he could obtain none. — It has been thought most adviseable to have the accounts referred to you for settlement. — You will be better able to judge of the propriety of the charges than I can here: But it would not be improper to remark that you are to pay the strictest attention to the interest of the United States in the settlement of them, so as, on a revision of the accounts, to prevent any objections to the passing of them to your credit here. — From the payments to the Interpreters, you will observe that they have received monies in advance, which they are to account for with you. From the abstract of Warrants issued, which is enclosed, you can see which warrants are to be accounted for by the person receiving it being held accountable, to which you will pay due attention. As I intend to make an examination of your accounts as early as possible, I have to request that you will forward immediately, or as soon as may be to this Office an abstract of your payments from the commencement of your transactions in that country to the end of the present year, and an account current agreeably to the forms inclosed for your government: — you will observe [For Chisholm &c. Page 316]