[84] Mr W. Smith Armingdale C^o &c Accountants Office June 19 1799 Your accounts vouchers are supplies to those at Springfield Massⁿ on the Quarters of the present year, have been examined & some errors having balance in your favor of Dolls 48.71 which sum will be paid to you by your division Supervisor upon your granting him the necessary receipt — [June 22. Mr S] Joshua Peirce Esq M^r of Army Massachusetts &c June 22^nd 1799 I have received your letter of the 18^th Inst^t with your accounts & vouchers for April & May 1799 returns they will be placed under examination immediately and you will in course be informed of the result, In the mean time your [undecipherable] I am led to remark that the forms furnished to you this Office was not intended to insinuate, that the vouchers for each sub Account thereto should be numbered or revised, but on the contrary were [undecipherable] to show, that all the vouchers should in the first instance be numbered in proportion according to the dates of payment, and the number thus attached to them extended into the sub Account Abstract — had this been rightly understood on your part several [strikethrough: several] vouchers of the same number would not appear in one sett of accounts — you will please attend to this in future & your sett of accounts as respects the form of making them will be perfectly satisfactory. Yours Mr S