Accountants Office January 26^th 1798. Sir I have received your letter of the 23^d Ultimo. On the subject of Col^o Hawkins's Bill on favor of General Pickens for 761 Do: which you say was to have been placed to the credit of his account in the [undecipherable] Branch Bank of Charleston — that the Bill was lodged in the Sec^y of War's Office and it rested with him to direct the remittance — I have communicated the contents of your letter to his Clerks who will take the proper steps to have it effected I am Sir Your Mo Obed Ser^t [undecipherable: probable reading "Wm"] [undecipherable: probable reading "H. Simmons"] [Address panel, recto:] M^r James Byers J^nr Tellico near Knoxville Tennessee [Postal notation:] FREE [circular postal seal] Accountants Office [undecipherable: probable reading "from"] [undecipherable: probable reading "H. Simmons"]