I return you the account of John Holliday for Surgeons duty and request you to pay the amount out of the unappropriated monies in your hands. The Secy of War will take the necessary steps to fix on a plan of conveying [undecipherable] to & from West Point. Saml. Peter Hagner Pr. Clk. Dan^l. Stevens                                              D.W. — Accountants Office Supervisor. Charleston S.C.                         April 25^th 1797 Sir In the absence of the Accountant, I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your letter of the 7^th Inst. covering Capt. Michael Halleison's Receipt for Seven hundred & eight Dollars, which sum is passed to the credit of your Account on the Books of this Office. The thirty nine dollars & Fifty Two Cents deducted from your quarterly accounts, this mistake, was transmitted you the 7^th Inst by the Treasurer of the United States, you will therefore be pleased to forward the necessary vouchers to close that transaction. I am Sir &c Peter Hagner Pr. Clk. — Jonathan Jackson Esq^r.                                       Accountants Office Supervisor Massachusetts                            April 26^th 1797 Sir In the absence of the Accountants I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20^th Instant enclosing the Receipt of Caleb Gibbs for One hundred & Eighty [Page 22 YOQ01]