[84] M^r W. Smith Springfields Q^r M^r Accountants Office June 19 1799 Your account vouchers for supplies to Thomas at Springfield Mass^ts on the Quarters of the present year, have been examined & found correct leaving a balance in your favor of Doll 48.71 which sum will be paid to you by S^r Dalton Supervisor upon your granting him the necessary receipt— Jam S^r M S Joshua Orice Esq^r M^r of Army Manufactures Ohio June 22^d 1799 I have received your letter of the 18^th Inst^t with your accounts & vouchers for April & May 1799 which they will be placed under examination immediately and you will in course be apprised of the result. In the mean time you a enquiry now conveys, I am led to remark that the forms furnished to you this Office was not intended to designate, that the vouchers for each subdivision Abstract should be numbered or restricted, but on the contrary were understood to show, that all the vouchers should in the first instance be numbered in progression according to the dates of payment, and the number thus attached to them transferred into the subdivision Abstract. had this been rightly understood on your part several [strikethrough: hundred] Vouchers of the same number would not appear in one sets of accounts — you will please attend to this in future & your acts. before us respects the form of rendering them will be perfectly satisfactory. Jam S^r M S