Col^t W^m Heath Phillidelp^a Accountants Office December 13 1797 Sir I received your letters of the 30. Ult^o & 2^d Inst. the latter enclosing the Copy of an account of Col^o Jos. Lane for rations &c &ca. In reply I have to inform you that there are a number of accounts of a like nature filed here for liquidation, under the Instructions of the Secretary of War to the different Agents. They are after the whole have been collected, to be adjusted and paid, this is of course it will be proper to suspend with the others of a similar nature. The abstracts of Delinquents I shall be obliged to render to Congress in the 1^st week in January, this however need not derange you in your other Publick Concerns — My reasons for pressing your appearance was as Col^o Nevitte is now in the City, he is waiting for the attendance of the different agents to settle his accounts. I am &^c W Simmons Acct^t