Samuel Meredith Esq^r Department of War Treasurer of the — Accountants Office United States February 7^th 1797 Sir Inclosed is a receipt of John Habersham Collector of Customs, for Savannah in the State of Georgia, amounting to Ninety dollars; also a Warrant for said sum being for the incidental and contingent expences of this Department, to which warrant the Receipt is to be annexed agreeably to the request of the Comptroller of the Treasury I am &c W^m Simmons Acct John Harris Esq^r. Accountants Office Store Keeper Phil^a. January 8^th 1797 Sir In the accounts rendered by Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r he charges Rent, for a Store of Stores on Sixth-teenth Street, at the rate of 300 dollars p year as well as a payment made to Steinmetz, or the Rent of his upper Store Rooms in his Ware House at the rate of 100 dollars p ann. In order to ascertain & fix the Amount, no[w] to be charged to the Military Store Department — I have to request you will furnish me with information what proportion of those Stores contain articles belonging to that Department I am &c. W^m Simmons Acct