[12] Philadelphia 14^th February 1794 Gentlemen, I have received your Note, but no Account can be passed untill vouched or attested. I think the former mode of stating your Accounts for the inspection of the Clothing the best. To prevent a repetition of the difficulties you have experienced I recommend the keeping a memorandum Book in the Store in which you may enter every day you are respectively engaged. This mode will obviate every inconvenience. the other mentioned in your Note is objectionable. I am Gent your mo ob^t Servant, Samuel Hodgdon Mess^rs Stettle & Ewing. Sir, Philadelphia 14^th February 1794 On the 11^th Inst. I received your favour of the 4^th ultimo. The mode you at first proposed to Col. Henley for the adjustment of the transportation of the Indian Goods under James Orr's Contract would have been perfectly requisite, but as you have received advice from him on the subject, and as it must be injurious to you to be out of the money advanced, I have continued to comply with your wishes and authorizes your drawing on me at sight in favour of the Treasurer of the United States. I have to knowledge that Col. Henley settled with M^r Orr, but am to confirm that it ever originally by Contract. [Accounts]