delivered by you to the Indians, after leaving this post on their return home, which were not authorized, their together with other charges not supported by vouchers agreeably to the enclosed Statement, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of Doll 1326.29/ being rejected will leave a balance due by you to the United States of Eight hundred & six Dollars & twenty four cents, in place of a balance in your favor as your accounts stood — I have therefore to call upon you to refund the same immediately that your account may be finally closed on the Books of this Office. I am &c W. S. Caleb Swan, Esq^r Accountants Office P. M. G. Sep^t 25. 1799 Sir I herewith transmit you a letter received from Major A H Edwards, stated this to enclose/ ordinary muster & Pay Rolls of the late troops at the Garrison of Newport for the month of August 1799. He not let informes that they were returned to your Office for examination & settlement I am &c W. S. Major A H. Edwards Sep^t 21 [undecipherable] 1799 Newport Sir I have received your letter [undecipherable: dates] the [undecipherable] with its enclosures, which have been referred to Caleb Swan, Pay master General's I am &c W. S.