Cap^t William Littlefield Fort Miflin Accountants Office October 15 1799 Sir I have received your letter of the 2^d Sept^r inclosing muster & Pay rolls of the Troops stationed at Fort Miflin for the month of August 1799 which have been filed. M^r Calderhead Esq^r Pay master General for examination & settlement to whom all your future transmissions of Army accounts are to be made. The uniforms missing in the [undecipherable: firs] of rations as Nettle [undecipherable] your Industries [undecipherable: Mus] ending 30 Sept 1798 (say Doll 3 18) has been admitted to your credit leaving a balance now standing against you of Doll 21.44. a statement whereof has been forwarded to the Pay master General who will of course make the necessary deductions from your pay in order to balance that sum — I am &^c W. S. Caleb Swan Esq^r P. m. G. October 15. 1799 Sir The inclosed accounts of John Le M^cKinter, Pay master of the 1^st & 2^y [undecipherable] for his expences while on the business of the duties of his Office with information that you have directed him to present them here, as the proper Office to ensure settlement. — I thought it had been pretty well understood that all army accounts were on the first instance to rest on accountants & payment in your Office; that a Pay master or other officer having a settlement to effect with you at [undecipherable] be improper & [undecipherable] much additional labor were given to settle his pay &^c & his [undecipherable: vou] to be [undecipherable: refered] to this Office &