[Endorsement: Letter from the Comptroller / directing John Wilkins Jun. / Quarter Masters Accounts / to be [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] settlement at the Treasury / [undecipherable] Office — Philadelphia [undecipherable] 1798 / [undecipherable] June [undecipherable]] Treasury Department Comptrollers Office September 24. 1798. Sir, Herewith you will receive a Certificate bearing the signature of the Register of the Treasury, by which you will perceive that the accompt of John Wilkins Jun. Quarter master General has been closed on the books of the Treasury, by a credit for the sum of one hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty eight cents being the balance of monies unaccounted for by him which were heretofore advanced from the Treasury on account of the Quarter masters Department. For this balance therefore of one hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty eight cents you will be pleased to debit the said John Wilkins Jun. Quarter master General, in the books of your Office, by causing such entries to be made for that purpose as shall appear necessary. The accompts of the Quarter master General for disbursements made by himself and his Assistants Isaac Craig and Matthias [undecipherable] to the 1^st of February 1798 and for those made by his Agent Samuel Hodgdon & the 31 of March following, having been already adjusted at the Treasury, it has been thought advisable that all such as have been received at the Treasury, for subsequent disbursements, should be examined and settled, by you, agreeably to the act of Congress passed on the 16 of July last. Pursuant to this idea, therefore, I take the liberty to transmit to your Office for the purpose before expressed, such accompts of the Quarter Master General and of his Agent Samuel Hodgdon as have been received at the Treasury (agreeably to a list thereof annexed) but of which no examination has been made. The letters which accompanied them are also enclosed, altho' they do not contain any thing material to the examination. I am Sir, Very Respectfully Your obed.^t Servant [signature] William Simmons Esquire. N.^o 1. Containing Abstracts N.^o 12 and 13 and the vouchers appertaining to each; received at the Treasury with the letter of John Wilkins Jun. Quarter master General, dated the 15^th of May 1798. " 2. Containing Abstract N.^o 14, with the vouchers appertaining thereto; received with the letter of the Quarter Master General dated July 8. 1798. n 3. Containing Abstract N.^o 15, with the vouchers appertaining thereto; received with the letter of the Quarter master General dated August 10. 1798. " 4. Containing Abstracts N.^os 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20 with the vouchers appertaining to each; received with the letter of the Quarter master General dated August 20^th. 1798. " 5. Containing an Accompt and vouchers of disbursements made by Samuel Hodgdon in the quarter ending June 30^th 1798; received at the Treasury but unaccompanied by letter. [Endorsement: Pittsburgh [undecipherable] Pennsylvania / May 15 1798, # / John [undecipherable] Wilkins Jun^r / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] transmitted to [undecipherable] / May 25^th 1798 / transmitted to [undecipherable]] Sir Pittsburgh 15 May 1798. I have the honour to transmit to you two packets containing vouchers for disbursements in the Quarter Master Department accompanied with their abstracts of the amount of [undecipherable] Vouchers [undecipherable] the said abstracts are numbered [undecipherable] 12 & 13 the former amounting to 3450.⁶⁹/₁₀₀ dollars and the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] 359[undecipherable].^{[undecipherable]}/₁₀₀ dollars. [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] 3810.^{[undecipherable]}/₁₀₀ dollars. Be pleased to advise me as soon as convenient of the receipts of those papers — I'm Very respectfully Sir your Most Obed Serv.^t Jn.^o J Wilkins J^r D'mast Gn^l The Comptroller of the Treasury [Endorsement: Pittsburgh [undecipherable] Penna, / July [undecipherable] 1798, # / John P. Wilkins Jun. / [undecipherable] abstract and vouchers / [undecipherable] abstract [undecipherable] 1797 [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] July 20^th 1798 / transmitted to [undecipherable]] Sir Pittsburgh 8 July 1798. I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a packet Containing vouchers of disbursements in the Quarter Master Department, Numbered from 1 to 22 inclusive, and amounting to 1578.⁸⁸/₁₀₀ dollars. I also enclose to you an abstract of the said vouchers. Awaiting your acknowledgement of the receipts of these papers I have the Honour to be with very Great respect Sir your Most Obed.^t Serv.^t Jn.^o J Wilkins J^r D'mast Gn^l The Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States [Endorsement: Fort Washington [undecipherable] / August 20 [undecipherable] # / [undecipherable] John P. Wilkins [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Military [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] / the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] transmitted to [undecipherable]] [Address panel: The Comptroller of the Treasury / of the United States / Philadelphia] F. Washington 20^th Aug.^t 1798. Sir Herewith I have the honor to transmit you five abstracts for the disbursements of [undecipherable] accompanied with Vouchers — Four of them N.^os 16[undecipherable] 17, 18, 19 on [undecipherable] for moneys expended in the Hospital, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ordnance departments, N.^o 20 [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Quarter [undecipherable] Department — Abstract N.^o 16 is accompanied with a Packet numbered 5 amounting to [undecipherable] 103[undecipherable] dollars. N.^o 17 with packet N.^o 6 amounting to [undecipherable] 3927[undecipherable] [undecipherable] — N.^o 18 with N.^o 7 dollars 523.[undecipherable]/₁₀₀ N.^o 19 with [undecipherable] — dollars 2989.[undecipherable]/₁₀₀ and N.^o 20 with 9 & 10 — dollars 14112.⁵⁶/₁₀₀ [undecipherable] — Total amount being 21426 dollars 16¾ cents — Your acknowledgement of the receipt of these papers directed to me at Pittsburgh will oblige me — I am, Sir, with great respect your most ob[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Very [undecipherable] Serv.^t Jn.^o J Wilkins J^nr D'mast Gn^l The Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States [Endorsement: Fort Washington [undecipherable] / August [undecipherable] 1798, # / John P. Wilkins Jun^r / [undecipherable] with an Abstract and [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Department [undecipherable]] Fort Washington 10^th. august 1798. Sir I [undecipherable] the honor to transmit to [undecipherable] abstract N.^o 15 for disbursements in the Quarter master department, accompanied by Vouchers — The Packets [undecipherable] the vouchers are numbered from [undecipherable] the Vouchers from 1 to 560, amounting to [undecipherable] dollars 48, [undecipherable] ¹⁹/₁₀₀. — I [undecipherable] pleased to acknowledge the receipt of these directed to me at Pittsburgh. — I am, Sir, with great respect, your very [undecipherable] Serv.^t Jn.^o J Wilkins J^r D'mast Gn^l The Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States