Ensign Risho McColl S^t Marys Georgia Accountants Office August 30^th 1799 Sir I have received your letter of the 20 Ult— The Pay master General having arrived from the Western Country and opens an Office at this place I has been his duty in the first instance to examine all strong charges & him I have sent all your subsequent communications are to be made, which relate to that object, from him at your future directions unto you, & to him the present you for relative to the allowance to Cap^tn McCall should be made I am &^c W S Lieu^t James Triplett Fort Norfolk 1^st August 30 1799 Sir I have rec^d your letter of the 22 ult enclosing an Account of Cloathing, which I herewith return you as the requisites stated in my letter of the 9 instant are not complyed with — I am &^c W S M^r John I. Pope New York 1825 August 30 1799 Sir I duly received your letter of the 22^d ult^o and observe you wish a transfer to your Credit from the Books of the Accountant of the Navy to the Books of this Office but this is [undecipherable] be as the accounts of the Department cannot properly be mingled with those of this Department you will therefore still be held accountable in the money now in your hands, agreably to the Statement transmitted to you arising from your transactions with this Dep^t any command