Treasury Department Comptroller's Office May 31^st 1799. Sir, The accompt. of David Henley as Agent for the Department of War, having been closed on the books of the Treasury, for the sum of thirty nine thousand and twenty eight dollars and eighty six cents agreeably to the certificate of the Register, herewith transmitted; you will be pleased to debit him therefor in the books of your Office, by making such entries for that purpose as may be necessary.— I also enclose a copy of the remarks made on some of the Agents accompts rendered to the Auditors Office; but which the Auditor informs me, he has transmitted to you for examination and adjustment.— I am Sir, very Respectfully Your obed^t. Serv^t. [signature: G. Steele] William Simmons Esquire.— [Endorsement on exterior fold: Comptroller's Office / to the [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] May [31?] 1799 / [undecipherable]] David Henly Agent for the Department of War in Tennessee.— His Acco^ts as transmitted to the Office of the Auditor are so deficient of Vouchers that it is conceived to be proper to suspend an examination which has been commenced thereon. On application at the Office of the Accountant for the War Department no Vouchers were found to apply to these accounts but abstracts were observed of Expenditures of a similar nature with those in the Auditors Office. Several essays have been made in the Accountants Office (as is said) to make a statement of those Acco^ts but without success and they are laid aside until the Agent himself comes forward which is expected in the ensuing fall. It is presumed that a more accurate adjustment would be made of the Acco^ts if they were all taken up in one Office and that it would be proper that such adjustment should be made in the Department of which he is an immediate Agent. It is likewise observed that the large advances from the Treasury in this branch of the War Department, the great length of time, since the commencement of the business and the present state of the acco^ts render it desirable that they should be brought to issue.— May 25^th 1799.—