posession of, with your ideas on the subject — I am frequently called upon for information and am at loss in giving it having to refer to your abstract [of] payments which are frequently of too early [a date] to give the information. — If your communications were made monthly it would be of material satisfaction to me — I trust therefore you will lose no opportunity in keeping me regularly informed as to those points. — and that you bear in mind the [undecipherable] section of the act of Congress of the 7^th June 1794. — I am &c. W^m Simmons M^r Stephen Hillis D.W. Accountants O[ffice] Knoxville Tennessee November 3 [17—] Sir I received your letter of the 4^th utt^o accompanied with a copy of a Waste Book of the Agent of this Department for the month of September [undecipherable] I am &c. W^m Simmons [undecipherable] Ens.^t Chas.^t Martin Accountants Offic[e] Fort de Boeuf, November 3 [17—] Sir I received your letter of the 18^th utt^o enclosing the receipt of Isaac Craig D.W. M[undecipherable] for Two hun[dred] thirty eight dollars & 7/100 which sum will be ent[ered to] your credit on the books of this Office — I am &c. W^m Simmons