George Fleming Esq^r Accountants Office West Point New York Nov 17^th 1797 Sir In answer to your letter of the [undecipherable] Ultimo enclosing Hughes accounts, I have to Inform you th before I direct the payment of that one for making [iron w] for gun carriages, I must be furnished with the authority which he was employed in addition to the artificers belonging to the corps at West Point — I am &^c W^m Simm[s] --- Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Offic[e] New York November 17^th 179[7] I received your letter of the 14^th Ins[t] enclosing the different Receipts therein mentioned amoun[ting] to Two thousand five Hundred and Seven Dollars and [for] Six Cents which Sum will be passed to the Credit of your a[ccount] on the Books of this Office I am &^c W^m Simm[s] --- John Kelly Esq^r Accountants O[ffice] Baltimore November 17^th [1797] Sir I duly received your letter of the [undecipherable] enclosing two receipts of Captⁿ Staats Morris One for 300 [Dollars] & the other of twenty Six Dollars which will be entered to yo[ur] Credit on the Books of this Office I am &^c W^m Simm[s]