O Swan Esq^r P. m G Accountants Office October 12, 1799 Your letter of this date, transmitting an abstract of your payments from 6 January 1793 to July 1799 with the Warrants and p^r master Rolls as desired to have received & will in course meet an examination — I am &^c W S --- Cap^tn Russell Bissell Middletown N. J. October 12, 1799 Sir I have rec^d your letter dated the 26^th Ult^o, enclosing Muster & Pay Rolls of the Recruits under your Command from 1 July to 30 Sept^r — the Pay master had, having opened an Office in this Place & is, being his duty on the 1^st Instant to receive for examination all Army accounts — the Rolls were accordingly referred to that Office & he will direct the necessary steps for the payment — I am &^c W S --- William Crafts Esq^r Agent of Fortifications Charleston S. C. October 12, 1799 Sir As you stand charged on the Books of this Office with considerable sums of money, for Warrants from the War Department; & for the Sum of Thirty thousand Dollars transferred from the treasury books, on account of the Fortifications at Charleston S.C^a — without having rec^d any account of your disbursements, for the objects thereof, notwithstanding that my Instructions to you dated the 8 May last, were pointed on