Saving the Expense of Rent

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[Cover page] [Docket, upper right:] Comptrollers Offic[e] / Comp[t] [undecipherable] 1790 / [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / Treasury [Circular stamp:] Received from / [undecipherable] / Nov 2[undecipherable] / R.P.O. [undecipherable] [File notation in circle: 24/2] Comptrollers Office Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Superintendant of Military Stores, Philadelphia --- Treasury Department Comptrollers Office January 3^d 1798. Sir, An accompt has been adjusted at the Treasury in which the sum of one hundred and ninety two Dollars is stated to be due to you from the United States; being for so much paid by you to William J. Smiths for two years rent of Store N^o 2 in which the Rigging, Sails &c^a of the Ship Capias is deposited.— This sum will be paid to you at the Treasury; but in order to avoid the like expense hereafter, it is wished that these articles might without inconvenience be removed into one of the public Stores.— I am Sir, very respectfully your obed^t. Servant [undecipherable] Comp^tr. Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r

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An account has been adjusted at the Treasury in which $192 is due Hodgdon, the sum paid to William Smith for two years' rent of store No. 2 in which the rigging and sails of the ship "Cassius" are deposited. The sum will be paid at the Treasury but the expense can be saved in the future if these articles are moved to a public store.