been forwarded or not. In doing this I wish you to understand that all your expenditures are to be certified then made under the direction of the Treasury Department as well as this, as it is intended that all your accounts of whatsoever nature are to be settled at this Office. all the charges standing to your debit on the Treasury Books have been accordingly transferred to those of this Office & the accounts & vouchers you forwarded to that Department have been transferred to this Office. as I wish to avoid delay to take up your accounts for examination I wish well that you would lose no time in compleatly forwarding the abstract required, which from the unfinished state your accounts at present appear to be in, a tolerably complex process to commence an examination for Sam^l R^o W^m S Caleb Swan Esq^r Septem^r 11, 1799 S^r N^o 6 I observe by the Recruiting accounts of the States which you forwarded to this Office yesterday, that no notice is taken of the arrival of muster which the law positively requires previous to the admission of the payment to the Office for enlisting the recruit, I wished to have mentioned this sooner to give you a former letter furnished not the receipts for your money opposite the name of each Recruit, the Company & Regiment in which he is mustered. This was to [undecipherable] of your examination, as you would naturally be in possession of the musters to offer it, & if this should not be the case the same should be noted & the accounts returned by you