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 [undecipherable] from the dates of their several acceptance to the 30^th ulto. If more circumspection & accuracy is not used in future in examining of the Contractors avails with the 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 Reg^t New York October 3^d 1799 Sir The Treasurer of the United States will remit you the sum of Eighty two Dollars &^c [undecipherable] which you will please apply to Saint Colonels [undecipherable: Sate] as Surgeon Mate in the 1^st Reg^t of Art^y & Eng^s 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 Pay^r at Charleston S.C. the sum of Fifty one Dollars &^c [undecipherable] 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.