[Address panel: William Simmons Esq^r / War Office; postal notation: [undecipherable] 6 om; [postal mark]] Sir, from your Strict Enquiree respecting the foundation of frauds Commited against the United States in our offices has Induced me to Inform you of a Conversation which took place not longe Since which might throw Some light on the buiness a M^r Shannon one of the accused Informed me that a John Conner who formerly lodged with him had and allways kept a Conection with three Clerks in the Different offices and that he had from 150 to 60 names in the hand writing of the Said Clerks that Conner had forgot when he Departed which papers Shannon Declares he Saw Conner Receive and also States that he Saw Conner pay one of the Said Clerks a one hundred Dollar bank note which was in lieu of names Recieved and his being So particular is because he gave Conner the money which he had in keeping and Saw him Deliver it to the Clerk Sir you'l please excuse my Declining to Subscribe my name as I dont wish to be known in the Buisness — Information