[190] L'Homp^t Stevens Esq^r Accountants Office New York July 31 1799 Sir I received in due time your letter of the 23^d Instant on the subject of claims now on Governors Island supposed to have been paid for by the United States to the late Contractors — As none of the accounts for supplies to the Garrison on Governors Islands in the Year 1791 were ever settled at this Office it was impossible for me to give you the information you requested — but the enclosed copy of a letter from M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Clerks Comptrollers Office in answer to myself will probably throw some light upon this mysterious business — Should the present Contractor [undecipherable] upon his account you will please to give me an account thereof, that I may be enabled to make the necessary entries on the Books of this Office — Sam^l & N.S. Caleb Swan Esq^r July 31. 1799 Pay Master General Sir I herewith hand you the accounts of Cap^t Samuel B [undecipherable] who acted as Pay master on a late Militia Expedition to Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania together with an Abstract of the charges against that Office taken from the Books of this Office — you are accordingly requested to give them proper examination and report the balance remaining on the hands of the said Pay master, that measures may be taken for refunding the amount to the Treasurer of the United States, as may be proper also to [undecipherable]