unfair for you to produce the receipt of the person appointed by the Secretary of War to receive them from you — the [undecipherable] of Robert Orrs Inspection which have not being a sufficient voucher to prove the delivery of sundwards &c — June 8^th W. S. Jared Huntingdon Accountants Office [undecipherable] middlesex April 26 1799 Sir On the other side you have duplicate of a letter dated the 28 may last — the contents thereof has not been complied with & you have now forwarded under blank cover another Statement for monies rec^d & paid for the Department of War in the 2^d Quarter of the year 1799 [undecipherable] the necessary authority on which the payments were made — I have presumed that my former letter has miscarried & therefore have forwarded the duplicates. It may be proper to repeat that without the requisites pointed out on that letter no examination can take place — June 8^th W. S. The Secretary of War Sep^r 28^th 1799 Sir I have reciev your letter of this inst enclosing one from major Gen^l Humberts adjutant praying for certain pieces of [undecipherable] due to the 1^st Reg^t — requesting me to direct you the information which it will be proper to give the General on this subject — In reply I have to observe that a number of our bills of the nature [undecipherable] of on the General letter have from time to time been presented at this office for payment — that the [undecipherable] were allowed