[30] [Mr. Wm Simmons] War Office 13^th May 1798 Sir It appears by a Letter & receipts & [undecipherable: probable reading foles], in the office of the Intendant of Naval & Military Stores that Mr. [undecipherable: probable reading Juad] Garretson commenced his Services as Clerk of the Navy Yard at Baltimore, on or about the first of June 1795, and continued the Station until the 9^th of May 1798, at the rate of 750 Dollars per annum? Signed Josiah Fox [Mr. Francis Du [undecipherable]] War Department 16^th May 1798 Sir I have to request that you will be pleased as soon as convenient to examine and proof in the usual manner the [undecipherable] eight inch Howitzers lately received from Boston — I am with respect — [Mr. Joseph Howell Baltimore] Sir War Department 24^th May 1798 Sir You will be pleased to inform Mr. David Stodder, that I will propose he should close his accounts without delay. It has been suggested that he owes the United States for Iron, lately received and he demands £50 for the use of an old Smiths Shop which he had voluntarily permitted to be used, and desired the public to occupy without any charge whatever — His [undecipherable] to the 5^th of April Ult^o after which time I am informed his Services were neither wanted or called [undecipherable]. If the Timber & other materials in the yard [undecipherable] being exposed to the flood? I Will you examine them & report their Situation — I am Sir &c