receipts accordingly) — The Accountant being absent I in consequence make this communication. I am &^c P. Hagner Lieu^t Ford & Blackborne Accountants Office Fort Norfolk Sep^t 13 1799 Sir I received your letters dated 6^th enclosing muster & pay rolls of the Troops stationed at Fort Norfolk for the months of August 1799 which have been handed to the Pay master General for payment agreeably to my letter to you of the 21 last month. — Your future transmissions of Army accounts are to be made to this office agreeably to that letter I am Y^rs Hon^ble Jackson Esq^r Sep^t 13 1799 Dep^y Boston Sir I have received your letter of the 9^th. The account of D^r Thomas Welsh therein enclosed I return to you to be executed in the following manner Viz^t a certificate of his appointment to set forth the emoluments he was to receive, the commencement & ending of service, & by what authority such appointment was made. — These requisits are necessary before the account can be [strikethrough: paid] agreed when they are completed the account is to be transmitted to [undecipherable] Paymaster [undecipherable] at the place whose duty it is in the first instance to examine & liquidate all Army accounts & I am Y^rs