George Fleming Esq^r West Point New York Accountants Office 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 &^c W^m Simm[s] Nicholas Fish Esq^r New York Accountants Office November 17^th 179[7] I received your letter of the 14^th Ins^t enclosing the different Receipts therein mentioned amounting to Two thousand five Hundred and Seven Dollars and [illegible] Six Cents which Sum will be passed to the Credit of your [account] on the Books of this Office I am &^c W^m Simm[s] John Killy Esq^r Baltimore Accountants O[ffice] November 17^th [179] 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 your Credit on the Books of this Office I am &^c W^m Simm[s]