George Fleming Esq^r Accountants Office West Point New York Nov 17^th 1797 Sir In answer to your letter of the 2^d Ultimo enclosing Hughes accounts, I have to Inform you that before I direct the payment of that one for making iron work for gun carriages, I must be furnished with the authority by which he was employed in addition to the artificers belonging to the corps at West Point — I am & W^m Simm[s] Nicholas Fish Esq^r Accountants Office New York November 17^th 179[7] I received your letter of the 14^th Inst enclosing the different Receipts therein mentioned amounting to Two thousand five Hundred and Seven Dollars and [undecipherable] Six Cents which Sum will be passed to the Credit of your account on the Books of this Office I am & W^m Simm[s] John Kelly Esq^r Accountants O[ffice] Baltimore November 17^th [179] Sir I duly received your letter of the [undecipherable] enclosing two receipts of Cap^tn Staats Morris One for 300 [undecipherable] & the other of twenty Six Dollars which will be entered to your Credit on the Books of this Office I am & W^m Simm[s]