words alone have been sufficient to determined me to reject the same from the Contractors accounts even if the Pay master General had not already transmitted their prices from the dates of their several acceptance to the 30 ulto. If more circumspection & accuracy is not used in future in securing of the Vouchers credits within Quarter master Department entirely unwarranted & which as aforesaid should have been drawn from the Public Stores, I shall be obliged to make a formal representation thereof to the Secretary of War I am &^c W S. Nicholas Fish Accountants Office Pay^r New York October 3^d 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Eighty two Dollars &⁸⁹/₁₀₀ which you will please apply to Saint Valcourt late a Surgeon Mate in the 1 Reg^t & of Art^y & Eng^rs taking the necessary receipts for the same, being for his Pay & Forage from 1 June to the 9 August 1799 the date of his resignation— I am &^c W S. Lieu^t George Izard September 30^th 1799 Fort Pinckney Sir You will receive from Daniel Stevens Esq^r of [undecipherable] at Charleston S. C. the sum of Fifty one Dollars & ⁰⁰/₁₀₀ being balance of your pay from 1 June to the 31 August 1799 & Statement underneath for your government for which sum you will please to grant your duplicate receipt— I am &^c W S.