strict communicate to you — All your future communications relative to Army accounts will be made thro' that Officer. — I am &c. W^m S Cap^t John Bishop Winchester 10^th Accountants Office October 14^th 1799 In the 14 Ult^o I wrote you respecting some apparently extravagant & unauthorized charges for extras furnished yourselves & friends 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 your own authority or making your requisitions upon the Contractor to which I have not yet received your answer. I apprized you from the above I expected of having those returns transmitted as soon as possible that you could have prevented the necessity of a second letter upon this occasion by an immediate application 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 explanations as the nature of the returns may require. — I am &c. W^m S M^r Sam^l Marshall Faukhier Court House Virginia Sir I daily received your acct & Voucher through Edward Carrington Esq^r, for supplies furnished Captⁿ A. M. Rumsfeld & K. Russell, between the 1^st & 14^th October 1799, amounting p^r your Statement to D^rs 281.72, from which has been deducted October 17^th 1799