M^r Edward Winchester Accountants Office Boston August 7 1794 Sir Your accounts of supplies to the Garrison at Castle William Island in April & May 1793 amounts of Gen^l Statement to D^rs 1389. 44 has been settled after deducting the amount of the four enclosed Vouchers N^o 20 & 22 & 23 they being for repairs of the Barracks & on Castle William Island by order of Cap^t Bates without his obtaining the approbation of the Secretary of War. 222-40 Commission charged thereon (— 4/9. 9¢) 4.41 226.81 Leaves a balance as now within in your favor of D^rs 1036. 63 which sum you will receive from Jonathan Jackson Esquire upon your granting him the necessary receipt — The Secretary of War in answer to my letter on the subject of Cap^t Bates repairing the Barracks & on Castle W^m Island says According to established principles no new works or considerable repairs to existing works are the purchase of materials to a large amount can be permitted but by the express permission or order of the Sec^y of War, accidents unavoidably enclosed forced, and the exigencies of the service, will often however call for expenditures for the comfort, preservation of the health, and even lives of the Soldiers, which the urgency of the moment must justify and when sanctioned by the Commanding General and approved by the Secretary of War ought to be allowed; this is more particularly the case where the Commanding Gen^l himself has directed the expenditure for the purposes mentioned — I am not to be understood as