you are accordingly requested to make me acquainted therewith & the Instructions requisite will then be forwarded. I find by a reference to the fine charges to the naval Committee of the Harbor of Baltimore in the Books of this Office that they amount for rations &c alone to Twenty thousand, Six hundred Dollars & som 8^s W.S. Lieut. Ford & Chadront Fort Norfolk Accountants Office Sep^r 24^th 1799 Sir Agreeably to my letter of the 28 Ult^o the Abstract Rolls for the pay of the troops at Fort Norfolk for April, May & June 1799 have undergone an examination & the amount found receipted therein being Six hundred & eighty four Dollars 4/90 will be placed to your credit on the Books of this Office — I wish you to draw out a forward a statement of your account being desirous of ascertaining the balance remaining in your hands for the purpose of informing the Pay master General whose duty it now is to liquidate all Army Accounts Sam^l 8^s W.S. M^r John Chisholm September 28^th 1799 Sir Your accounts heretofore forward to this Office by David Henley Esq^r Agent for the War Department at Knoxville having undergone an examination, the result is that a number of receipts have been found to be most shamefully altered from a small to a larger Sum — there are also a variety of charges for articles said to have been printed &