strict communicate to you — All your future communi cations relative to Army accounts will be made thro' that Officer — I am &^c W^s S Cap^t John Bishop Winchester V^a Accountants Office October 14^th 1799 Sir in the letter I wrote you upon half ones apparently extravagant & unauthorized charges for articles furnished yourselves & troops by James little Contractor & requesting you to forward the original returns upon which those charges were made that I may be enabled to judge how far you were authorized in making your requisitions upon the Contractor to which I have not yet received your answer. I apprehend from the above I expressed of having those returns transmitted as soon as possible that you would have prevented the necessity of a second letter upon this occasion by an immediate compli ance as you have neglected, I therefore again repeat to you to lose no time in transmitting to this Office all the returns for Quarter Master & Hospital Stores, with such other expla nations as the nature of the returns may require — I am &^c W^s S M^r Sam^l Marshall Powhattan Court House Virginia October 17^th 1799 Sir I daily received your letter & Voucher through Edward Carrington Esq^r, for supplies furnished Captⁿ A. L. Campbell & S. Russell, between the 1^st & 16^th October 1799, amounting p^r your Statement to P^m 281.72. from which has been deducted