respecting your Navy accounts must be with the accounts, and for the Department of the Navy. I am &c W S. William Crafts Esq^r Accountants Office Charleston S.C. August 30. 1799 Sir The object of the present is to request you toforward to this Office the original returns upon which the Contractors employed by you have made their issues as there are some doubts arising on the examination, which cannot be obviated but by these returns I must particularly the authority by which Dan^l Booth (who does not appear to be acting under any appointment by the War^l Government) was employed, as attending Physician to Fort Pinckney & under what circumstances it became necessary to employ him as such. You will please to explain the nature of the charge Capⁿ Toussard has made for the keeping of a horse, and the hiring of the Stable— the law does not authorise an allowance for forage money for a horse in the Army. There are also a number of charges exhibited for barrack repairs & Commissary for Forts Pinckney & Johnson you will be pleased to inform me by what authority these supplies were ordered & whether sanctioned by the commanding Gen^l. You make a charge of 2½ P Cent Commission on the settlement of Contractor accounts, you will therefore be pleased to inform me by what authority you made this charge? I am &c W. S.